Stars
TopazOwl

Mon Oct  5 22:11:50 1998
     I was sitting outside tonight, wrapped in my fuzzy blanket and contemplating the night sky, as I have been doing every night for some time now. The moon, beautiful as she is in her fullness, was not the focus of my attention tonight, though I did greet her with my usual curtsy and nod as she rose.*p*     No, I was watching the stars, and thinking of souls, and wondering about those lights up there looking down on us, the cattle of Tethra...and realized that centuries ago, someone very much like me looked up at the same sky and wondered the same things. And I chanced to catch a brighter light out of the corner of my eye. Thinking it was a plane, I focused on it as it streamed in perfect arc across the sky in the center of my vision, the biggest, brightest shooting star I have ever seen. It seemed to me to linger long in the sky, though the sight was over in an instant.*p*     And I smiled, and tears stung my eyes as my heart leaped and wrenched from the beauty of such a sight, and I thought to myself what a wonderous place this is, this world that we live in, to see such marvelous sights. In this life I am truly blessed, simple creature that I am, to be allowed to live again in such an amazing world, this time having the opportunity to truly appreciate it.*p*Leigh