Trinity redux

I saw a flower blooming (on Halloween, folks! the weather here is weird) on the way out this morning. It was a tiny flower, a perfect little triangle, composed of three petals that almost perfectly overlapped. I decided to call it a "trinity flower."

For the first time I understood this whole Trinity idea, in the form of a metaphor presented by Nature herself: one Flower, three Petals. Each petal distinct, but each emanating from the same flower, none of them could be said to be a flower in its own right, and all of them dependent on some central flower-part that is unseen but every bit as real and important. 

Too bad the midterm happened last week...