I have stood out there in the belief that I would grow smaller by beholding the staggering scale of the heavens, but that is not how it works. Not with a telescope. You get huge, hungry eyes, you intrude, you invade. You meddle in the affairs of the firmament and I can tell that the more familiar I become with the night sky, the more stars that are identified, the more of the moon’s surface I see, the bigger I get. I invade space, I fill the world.
