Stardust

I'm willing to eat anything that may come from the fact that I have posted this essay from NPR on my blog.  I find Kimberly Woodbury's  essay so beautiful, so meaningful and so wondrous that I want to give it as much exposure as possible ...
  In 1969, Joni Mitchell penned the song “Woodstock.”  One line in particular rises above the others, and it haunts us with its simple beauty again amidst the turmoil in today’s complex world: 

 “We are stardust, we are golden, 

and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.”

This may be the most meaningful and the most beautiful piece I’ve been compelled to share.  Thank you Kimberly Woodbury for your profound revelation.

We Are All Stardust

by

Kimberly Woodbury - New Haven, Connecticut

As heard on The Bob Edwards Show, March 11, 2011

Kimberly Woodbury wrote this essay for a colloquium at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University, while working towards her master’s degree. She enjoys exploring the space between science and faith. After her graduation this spring, Woodbury will work as an Episcopal priest and chemistry teacher in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.  In the deepest reaches of the cosmos, scientists have found sound waves they think came from the Big Bang. Episcopal priest and science teacher Kimberly Woodbury believes those waves are a siren call connecting all of us to the mysteries of the universe.

“I remember an article about a group of astrophysicists who sent a probe deep into space. They sent it to a place so far away that you would expect only bottomless silence. And instead they found waves — sound waves that they traced all the way back to the Big Bang.