how I wonder

Sunday night, 6:45, I stepped outside and into the middle of the trailer park street to look at the stars. Orion’s Belt, my fave, has been absent on my journeys out after meditation, 4am, cause the earth spins and it looks like the stars in the sky have moved, and for all I know I’m the one that’s moved. No Orion’s Belt.

Sunday night, on the other hand, there she was, off in the southeastern night sky. With the big, big ring of stars that circle around her. But, it’s funny. Orion’s Belt, those three stars, were twinkling. Honest to goodness twinkle, twinkle, twinkling. Like all the other stars in the sky.

I felt like a kid looking up there – outside after dark, done with tv (streaming ‘Scorpion’), all brave and everything out in the middle of the road. Rewarded, gifted with a sky full of twinkling stars. Life, vast and wondrous.

At 4am I do keep getting to see the Big Dipper.

It’s so big. It’s all, all of the all of this – so big.