... after shutting down the bookstore, i scurried up to bangor so chad and i could go out and make use of a dark sky night ... his wife, em, fed me a delicious meal, i chatted for a few minutes with the kids, and then we were off ...
... i'm not really even close to mastering this sort of thing, but i don't care ... mostly, it's a great excuse to be out enjoying the universe ... i'm really glad g*d had the good sense not to sprinkle the stars evenly, do you think perhaps g*d had photographers in mind when constructing the milky way ...
... after awhile, the heavens above ablaze with uncountable sparkling diamond like lights and the ocean singing a soft song as ever-so-gently it continued with its timeless chore of rearranging the continents, chad and i reverted to being five-year olds ... he dug a great hole, wondering all the while, "what do you think is beneath these pebbles" ... i, knowing his aversion to all things dark of the night, responded, "oh, it'll be like a law and order episode ... a body ... you'll find the face first, of course, all squished out of shape by the plastic it's wrapped in" ...
... me, like a lazy seal i flopped down at the edge of the sea and continued my life-long quest for the perfect rock ...
... we drove away, milky way captured, if not in digital files for sure in our memories, laughing as chad mused, "what if they've got a roadblock and we get busted for taking rocks" ...
... tomorrow these'll go with liz to school, for her students to curiously explore ... i'm sure she will say to them, "how marvelous, that if you collected all the rocks and pebbles from all the beaches and shorelines in the world, and then examined them closely, never would you find two exactly the same" ...
... people, us, humans, how can we ever find it anything but wonderful that never are two the same ...