Mar. 31, 2004
The night air is calm tonight with just a slight breeze. It's still not one of those night that you can just go for a walk and enjoy... but the sky is clear and the stars shine. I always forget to look up once in a while. The city light have been such a distraction that the luminance of nature goes unobserved. They twinkle and glow. I think I am seeing planets tonight because some of them just seem too bight. Never can notice. Just too busy with my own things. I remember back to a time where the sky was such a fascination. Where journeys into outer galaxies plagued my mind for hours while I sit and stare. Counting until my eyes became crossed. Making images with the fingers as the ladle pours the water from the north star.
Tonight I count 10. The lights have flooded the rest, and my attention dissipates into my current activity and I forget why I look up. Where has my imagination gone? Have I forgotten all this light in the darkness? The heavens disappear to show some peace and it just passes, unnoticed. No more dream, just hard pressed living without the spice. I just want to be that little boy again looking up at the twinkle twinkle, off again in another one of my adventures....
Star light, star bright.....