“stars, once” is an original piece for piano, wrote for E. F. D.

we as human beings would not exist without various supernovas and other major celestial events. the elements that create life as we know it are scattered across the galaxy, yet all the elements that we need to live and create happened to all end up in one place… Earth.

while i personally don’t hold any religious faith, it is inevitable for me to ask myself the question of “how and why am i here?” the most comfortable answer for me is that we all once used to be stars - the same stars that we as humans see up in the dark, night sky. once those stars become supernovas, or shed their layers for elements to float in the cosmos, the elements expelled from the star infinitely drift in the cosmos until they end up somewhere. in our case, i like to think that an infinite amount of stars, over billions of years, shed elements and over time, and all of those elements eventually end up together here. as humans, as plants, as water, as anything we perceive or create.

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