Chapter 1 

The most startling thing to see was the destruction of the Earth. I was very sad and in shock for a long time until I circled around the universe and returned to the galaxy only to find the Earth restored. This happened twice. The destruction happened this way: The surface would sink down towards the core, it would begin to wobble, after a few revolutions around the sun it was flat as a plate, shrinking with sudden bursts of flames jetting up from the flatness and then a final catastrophic implosion that would turn it all into dust, then vanishing. Of all the things I experienced that was the most difficult. I was amazed by how much loyalty I had to the wonderful Earth. And I thought of all that human energy from the beginning to the end now completely irrelevant to the vastness I swam in. But then, as I said it was restored. And on further inspection on my part, had strange life on it, a different life than I had experienced and known. This was almost as bad as the initial destruction. I returned many times to see that life flourish for many epochs. It was an odd and exhilarating thing to see. But then like before the Earth was crushed or disintegrated. But then, another renewal!

David Eide
January 24, 2014