"to see the world in a grain of sand..."

This entry is in response to the Water, Air, Earth, Fire article about the periodic table, 30 elements, universe, Jung, the amorous hug of art and science.  I've often marveled over the fact that we came from stardust, we are the Stuff of the universe--expansive, precise, and perfect.  I read somewhere once that water is neither created or destroyed on our planet, that the 85% or so of the water contained in my body has been recycled millions of times through the bodies, plants, animals, rivers of the world.  We are one.  And yet, for as dynamic and connected as we are, we are still just big kids in a gigantic sandbox.  Lately, I've seen a couple of episodes of Cosmos, the modern version spin-off of Carl Sagan's original series.  We now know so much more about our universe, that our universe is quite possibly just a drop in an ocean of other universes.  To juxtapose that thought with the microcosm of the organization of our atoms, cells, systems (since we're talking about biochemistry here, lol),  it really is incredible to think that the early philosopher, Hermes, had it right:  "As above, so below".  But what is the part of the elements in our varied imaginations, the ability to fantasize, marvel, love, and create?  Is that too an evolutionary response?  Maybe one day we will be able to explain everything in terms of science.  Until then, I'm going to relish discovery and mystery, art and science, and making the most of my magnificently insignificant existence. :-)