"A lone astronaut floats in open space. No planet waits ahead. No ship waits behind. He's not lost and not in danger. It is simply there, unhurried, with nowhere it has to be. This piece is not about abandonment. It is about solitude that has been chosen. Without a destination, there is no rush.
This is the solitude that makes a contemplative life possible: still, unobserved, and free of the need to arrive."