Transcendence. God, it’s a word we don’t use often enough. We talk about it all the time, transcendence.

Main Entry:

tran·scen·dence

Pronunciation:

\-ˈsen-dən(t)s\

Function:

noun

Date:

1601

: the quality or state of being transcendent

Main Entry:

tran·scen·dent

Pronunciation:

\-dənt\

Function:

adjective

Etymology:

Middle English, from Latin transcendent-, transcendens, present participle of transcendere

Date:

15th century

1 a: exceeding usual limits : surpbuming b: extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience cin Kantian philosophy : being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge

2: being beyond comprehension

3: transcending the universe or material existence — compare immanent 2

4: universally applicable or significant <the antislavery movement…recognized the transcendent importance of liberty — L. H. Tribe>

— tran·scen·dent·ly adverb

And we just keep on making things more impossible each day for ourselves. So we dream. Can you belive that? We will constantly fantasize about things we could accomplish in an hour, we consign the awesome to death by illusion.

**** on me.