I was just out walking the dog and noticed that the night was pretty clear. I realized it’s been a while since I actually took the time to look up and look at the stars at night. Its something that I always try to do, but lately I haven’t had a chance to. It’s times like this that I realize that life has been so full of things to do that I haven’t had the time to appreciate the little things.

I immediately found my favorite constellation - Orion. There’s no way you could miss him up there in the sky - a row of three stars held within a rectangle of 4 other stars (5 if you’re lucky). There were many a drunken night in college that me and my friends would lie down in the middle of the quad on our way home from the bars and find our constellation friends. Those nights were the best!

There were also times I remember standing outside my childhood home, searching for stars, or lying in Melanie’s backyard, searching for Cygnus or falling stars, or watching lunar eclipses through the telescope my father gave me, trying to get the best magnification on the telescope as it was perched on my dad’s car.

Unfortunately I didn’t do too much stargazing tonight - the night was a bit chilly and I only had a light jacket on.

But it’s nice to know that the stars are out…it always brings back fond memories and a sense of comfort to me.

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