I don't go to church ...

[Lemonwurst]

17. Also hit by lightning, not many of us out there

Weird instance in my otherwise normal American life, but I was intrigued that you mentioned that. I was 10, at a Little League game that went terribly wrong after we backed up into the trees after the first few drops fell. I’ll spare the details, but it was a life-changing event for about 30 of us that evening, and a life-ending event for one.

I’ve met only one other person hit by lightning in my many trips around the sun, and that poor schmoe was just at a bus stop when it happened. Science is fascinating, and scarier than any god to me. But the perspective is actually comforting, we are just one species on one planet in one galaxy, and that is that.