THE ELEGANCE OF THE UNIVERSE: A THING OF BEAUTY

 Our connections to each other scintillate on various levels (time, experiences, random chance) in wider scopes than we may realize. They are definitely complicated. Some lines weave like roots through time creating intricate paths, memories and attachments. Others remain or become detached.

One thing is clear, as we move through the cycles and random existence of everyday life we are held within benign, underlying connective forces of gravity warped spacetime and an all-encompassing love – and there is nothing we can do about it!

A Möbius strip or loop, in mathematics, is a surface with only one side. Picture yourself upon this structure floating in space with low gravity allowing you to walk upside down. As you hike, you leave footprints on what seems at first to be both sides of a two-sided surface, but you are actually walking the entire strip without ever crossing over an edge. You’re on an endless 3D path which has only one side, one contiguous surface.

Sometimes you might get this “Mobius strip feeling” when life seems to be running you in circles. Or it may connect you to the calming realization of the continuity of life’s annual journey through a year of nature’s seasons and cycles. As you go along, feel the breeze against your skin, appreciate the changing colors, take note of the various sounds hovering about you, and observe the obstacles you will encounter and how each recedes through time.

 In botany, a newly forming red pine branchlet is called a candle. A red pine in springtime is covered with male and female candles, something that might really fan the flames of the imagination!

Female strobili (cones) have flowers on the tips of their candles as in this painting which open when ready, waiting to catch the wind-borne pollen from male strobili formed at the base of that year’s candles.

How do the male strobili know when to release? Most likely, hormones are felt surging within the tree and also exuded into the air, sensed by all interested parties. Spicy! Wonderful! Joyous! So, the males release their pollen into the wind to disperse onto all the waiting female strobili in the area in an explosion of pollen fireworks, love, and red pine heaven on earth.

It is through this unseen, underlying and ever-present source of attraction that all energy seems to flow, from the smallest molecular particles reaching out to each other, affecting all earth’s forms big and small and to which we, in our turn, are connected. Everything is energy!