EARTHY.

There haven't always been seven billion people on the earth, or thousands of giant buildings or factories or M1 Abrams and yet, no matter what we've added to the surface, we have never really changed the weight of our planet. Earth has always been pretty much the same inconceivably ridiculous number (13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds, or thereabouts) that it was when we got here. And to me this is both the most obvious fact in the world, and the most profound.And the reason I say this is profound is because thinking about the world this way gives me a greater respect for everything manmade that I can hold, as––directly or indirectly––it has all been lifted out of the earth at some point. Every car, every building every device and every human has been at some point in time part of the planet. Which includes, naturally, excitingly, our baby.Our baby will be made of the beef from Moonie, the cow the Smiths split with us, who herself was made from the grass of the farm. Sweet corn and sweet potatoes, blueberries and beets will make our baby, which themselves, fueled by sunlight, came from dirt. And we will raise our children to understand where they came from, too, and what fuels them, in hopes that they will learn to treat the planet with the same respect they treat themselves. Because we are––mathematically, scientifically and proverbially––one and the same thing.- Jesse.