How to harness the grandeur of the cosmos, how to
translate it into human terms without stripping it of its magnificence?
How completely can an enigma be explained before it becomes mundane?
And what of our own mundaneness, the ordinary passage of numbered days?
How do we reconcile the unspooling of our relatively short lives with the
limitless wonders and terrors of outer space?
Or this -
What if our lives here on earth
are equally shrouded in this cosmic mystery and wonder? What if these
mortal minutes and hours are just as full of unknown joys as the night sky? What if we all just
temporary mirrors of an infinite universe?
Or this -
What if, finally, the one truly
amazing fact is that all of this exists together?
All of the seen and the unseen, the known and the unknown - the vacuums, the
voids, the overcrowded cities, both humor & sorrow, both laughter
& fear - the mundane, the obscene, the surreal and the fantastic, all
of it constantly occurring, lives constantly ending and beginning, stars
forever forming and dying, the intangible always outnumbering the tangible, but all of it out
there. Not all of it necessary and not all of it inevitable, but
still out there, defining us or being defined by us, and what then? How
to capture these elemental, constantly overlooked truths?
And here, then, within these
pages, within these luminous lines, maybe an answer.
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