Journalling about starry nights

The Perseids Meteor shower is at its peak this coming week in the corner of the world where I live. Looking up at the sky to see shooting stars feels quietly magical.

It’s something I would have missed just a few years ago. The city I lived in then lights up at night, which is exciting to see from an airplane, and feels alive and humming with activity when you’re in it on the ground.

At that time if you would have asked me what my idea of a starry night was I would have said a glitzy gala with human stars of the stage, screen or the page. I would have said a celebration of achievement and success, of bright, glittery people.

But since then, I’ve moved across the country to a smaller city where the sky stars are brighter and more visible on a clear night, and then this year the whole world slowed down.

Now I appreciate the spectacles of astronomy more, and I’m more tuned into and observant of nature, more focused on the business of simply living. This shift is happening everywhere, including the city I used to live in. One of my dear friends there says he’s on his bike all the time now, riding down to the lake as much as he can.

The NASA website says meteor showers are meteor rocks appearing as shooting stars entering the atmosphere at the same time. Interestingly when we see a shooting star “the bright streak is not actually the rock, but rather the glowing hot air as the hot rock zips through the atmosphere.” Hot, bright zipping spotlights in the sky!

I invite you to journal with me on this week’s question: what’s your idea of a starry night now? Or, in other words, what excites you and feels sparkly?

I’ll be journaling with you!

Sending you stardust,

Suzanne

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