Space May Be the Final Frontier

Music is the space between the notes. - Claude Debussy

It's the silence between the notes that makes the music. - Zen proverb

The space between us, is it a space that separates us or a space that unites us? - June Singer

Captain James T. Kirk spoke the opening words of the original Star Trek, "Space: the final frontier." 

I hear those words now much differently than I did as a teenager. What once I understood to be literally true, now is meaningful to me on another level.

The space between us is the final frontier. There is vast unexplored and unconquered space between us. There are enormous gaps in our understanding and comprehension.. Individually, corporately, nationally. We are so near, yet so far away from, each other.

Still, we are bound together across space by all sorts of things. The list is practically endless. And, we are more alike than we are different. It seems, though, that we spend almost as much time peering and shouting across the void that separates us as we do immersing ourselves in the unseen energies that attract us and allow us to connect.

Why is that? Is it because dust is blocking the light, causing huge dark clouds like the Horsehead Nebula? Is it because we only look into the space from one angle and see red? Or from another angle and only see blue? 

We get red sunsets and blue skies from the same source of light.