Tiny True Tales

Universal Considerations

Under the enormous dome of an inky night, I wonder: how many stare at these same stars, how many are blanketed by this same air? And my mind wonders on, and I ponder: how many stars, planets, asteroids? How many tangoing galaxies, unfathomably dense singularities, traversing yet unknowable universal miles? Then I reason: our closest neighboring star is 93-million miles away, is 4.85-billion years old. And I think: that’s before life on earth, before a third rock from our sun, before our own star even. Then a grasshopper jumps on me, and I announce: we’ve come a long way, buddy.