A Lovely Way To End The Week...

Has anyone seen the stars tonight? It is crisp, but not cold and there were several stars raining light as I came home from dinner with friends. The night sky can be hard to see in a suburban landscape as built up and neon-dominated as this tends to be. Living next to an eight-lane roadway populated largely by businesses, it is easy to become overwhelmed with the cacophony of traffic noises, the glare of lights or the blare of emergency vehicles on route to nearby hospitals or the neighboring firehouse.

This evening as I arrived at my door, however, all was quiet and what was intended as a passing glance upward became the entree for one of nature's finest moments. Many years ago while in the desert with my friend Pauline, we were treated to a dazzling array twinkling from above when she, an avid amateur astronomer, showed me some stars through her telescope, remarking that the stars were infinitely more interesting and beautiful than anything humans could create, and few of us appreciated our luck at being able to gaze at them.

I think perhaps she was right. What do you think?