Parable
July 2000
When two comets, each with its own secret and unique trajectory, each with its own far-off origin in space, come that fraction too close as they pass in the void, something unprecedented happens. As each one feels the pull of the other, their paths are changed and, rather than flying off once more across the faceless curve of the universe, they begin to spiral one about the other, prevented from following their previous paths by the mutual attraction between them. This is not the nature of comets; and surely they feel a tug at the loss of their solitude and the ending of their lone, wild journeys. What they don’t notice – or not at first – is that their slow graceful dance, each one about the other, is so much richer, so much more complex, so amazingly more beautiful than the separate paths along which they met.
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