Did you see it?
The Geminid meteor shower peaked Sunday night into Monday in what is recognized as the best annual meteor shower for skywatchers in New England.
The shower is named after the constellation Gemini, which occupies the portion of the sky where the meteors...continue here.
-- Breanne Kovatch
For some reason (Spirit of Christmas?), this kind of thing calls out to me.
I set my alarm for 2:30a Monday night to see what I could see. Can't say it was exactly like the image above, but over the course of an hour I did see a few spectacular streaks across the sky.
Staring into the starry host often leaves me sensing a variety of things — some old (familiar), some new. The idea that so is much happening 'out there', whether I know about it (see it) or not, stokes a reminding-quality within me. It comes like an echo from the past and whispers to me about how my present is somehow connected to a future.
And, this recognition seems to settle something in me that tends to grow unsettled over time.
I am a part of something infinitely bigger and somehow a small part of it that still matters (ever noticed...how often we caveat smallness with insignificance — why is that?). I have a part to play in that biggerness, if nothing else than to be present to it — to notice it, to point to it, to live as if the truth of it mattered, even if in some incomprehensible way.
