[Ed. Note: This posting originally appeared in Karen Kaplan’s blog, Offbeat Compassion https://offbeatcompassion.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/in-place-of-comfort-food/ – JB] When New Horizons was churning through three billion miles of space to reach Pluto, a nine-year trek ending five years ago comforted me the whole time. Even the memory of it does. You no doubt are wondering, “Comforting?. Aren’t things like soft chocolate chip cookies with their smell trailing behind them as they come from the oven more like it? Or gentle embraces or timeless …