Has anyone else noticed a certain – strangeness – to the world, lately?

Perhaps I’m mistaken. After all, I’m a busy man, flying about my day in routine distraction from most of the natural phenomena that may be appearing about me in the greater world. But I feel a certain – presence.

At the same time, I sense an absence. Something is missing that was there before. Something out there, in the world. But what?

Something is out there and something has disappeared. Is there a connection? A crossroads where the valley of your knowledge meets the summit of imagination, on an oddly lit peak known only as…