It's EARTH DAY — a day to remind ourselves that we are truly blessed to be alive on this incredibly special planet: a pale blue dot in an endless black sea illumined by innumerable stars. A planet that is more welcoming and forgiving than we could have ever hoped for, and yet more fragile and delicate than we could have ever imagined. And here we are, the human inhabitants of that planet, not separate from this Earth but born out of it, a part of it. At times—and seemingly to