Today's post comes from friend Megan in New York. It is a short video from the Atlantic speaking with Dr. Michelle Thaller and it brilliantly connects the worlds of science and spirituality in my mind. She begins with a brief history of a star and how it starts with the simplest of elements, hydrogen and then draws itself in to create iron which is our life existence of our red blood. It eventually combusts in an explosion that creates all the other elements known and casts them out into the larger universe. And somehow billions of years later, they have reconvened into our bodies and manifest as life.
How brilliant is that if you really ponder it? She talks about how fortunate it is for us that these moments have aligned and our universe has the perfect sun and other conditions to nurture lives when so many other possibilities could have been otherwise. She goes on to say that as each star explodes, there is one less and that at some point trillions of years in the future it is actually a finite thing - there will be no more life as we know it.
So in light of much death this winter; suicides, parents that are ill and dying, pets that have run out of their life - I found this reflection both profound and assuring. Please give it a listen as it will brighten your day.
...."We are stardust, We are golden, We are million year old carbon, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden...."
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