There
is a miles-long solitary wave trundling its way across an ocean right now. It
will travel for days on end before dissipating its
billions of joules of energy. From motes of methane pushed by distant
starlight, to words smuggled out of a silent place, our world is full of unseen
currents that carry and connect.

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