Rilke wrote a famous assertion about distance and intimacy, which one can find all over the web and also quoted in a zillion books: “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” When I was younger, I wanted to argue with those “infinite distances” (probably I still do?), but now I wonder about seeing “the other whole against the sky.” Do the distances between us help us see each other?