
Name two metals; which is the first that comes to your mind? Gold and iron! As if they were counterposed, one dedicated to art and magic, the other to work and war. But both essential to human history. Gold is found as nuggets in its natural state, and rarely in chemical composition with other elements. Almost all of the iron is found in complex minerals, while the little iron which is found in the pure state in nature, is not of terrestrial origin! These are the meteorites which have fallen on the Earth when our solar system was younger, and they have have been very important in the history of life on our planet. And also of the end of life, for eg, that of the dinosaurs. We have gold nuggets, which seem to spring from the inner fire of the planet; we have the meteorites, which still seem to be accompanied by the cold of outer space (although, generally, they come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and so are relatively close). And we have memory of the impact, crystallized in the light of the diamond. And the rush to their rendezvous, that the symbolism of Tao represents so well. Except that here the encounter ends with a hug, and when the two sides come off, they do it for the time needed for the turn of a dance, to reunite soon after.

















