December 4, 2015
(If we live with an open and
grateful attitude, every day will bring a gift. This is one of 365 gifts during
the year I turned 70.)
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| The night sky holds Orion's Belt near the center of this photo. |
Today we traveled with Stacy and Rayned to Etlan,
Virginia where we were invited to spend the weekend at Sun Dancer with Geri and
Gary. The property where their lodges are—Spirit Dancer, Sun Dancer and Star
Dancer—borders on the Shenandoah National Park. This weekend will have no cell
phone or Internet connections.
These days, we are all used to instant connection
via mobile phone or computer. It is technology that makes this possible but
when technology is unavailable, we are forced to connect in ways that rely only
on face-to-face time where spaces are filled with hugs, discussions and actually
doing things together.
Tonight I went outside, listened to the silence above,
and saw more stars than I can count. Looking up, I felt a connection to these distant bright
balls of gas that inspired people long ago to create pictures and stories by
connecting the dots in the sky. Other humans far away also look up at these
distant points of light and, like me, are awed. In a way, during our lifetime, we
are all our own stars secured to the earth by gravity and given the task of
connecting the dots, the spaces among ourselves.
My father once asked David about his philosophy of
afterlife. David told him he believes we are made of stardust and that when we
die, we become part of the universe.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” ~ Carol Sagan
My gift today is many millions points of light.
> Day 361: Let It Be a Dance
You can find links to my other posts on this project here:
http://bjschupp.blogspot.com/2014/12/365-gifts.html
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