The Night sky

I have spent countless hours of my life looking at the night sky. I can just stare up in complete awe and loose track of time trying to comprehend the size of the stars I see and the unfathomable distances between them. I find my mind spinning just trying to encapsulate the distance to our moon or, in the daylight, the time light takes to travel at such speeds from the sun to our planet. How can it take eight minutes? Unbelievable.

I have lived pretty close to metropolitan areas where the stars are dimmed by city lights. There is the ever present “city glow” to the south each night. What stars that can be seen will stop me in my tracks as I gaze dizzily upwards, trying to glimpse a bit more of the sky. I cup my hands around my face to block out more light. On occasion I have had the privilege to camp or visit friends out on the countryside or even be blessed with the blessing of the occasional power outage. The sky blooms, a spectacle of stars splattered on the heavenly canvas. This is a bit more poetic than most of my thoughts, but no other words come to mind once looking up at the sky and seeing the hundred specks of light that are in fact massive balls of intense fire. And they are light years away.

The night sky has always inspired me. I look up and see those little specks of light. They are beautiful and inspire love and appreciation of life. They make me pause and fill with wonder and joy. This is what has made me think about much of what my writing is about.

There is such raw beauty in the night sky, as in all of nature around me. You must pay attention to it though. It is also such a paradox to me. In the night sky, what I perceive are countless little specks of light. But I also know these sparkling points are further away than anyone ever living could comprehend. It takes years; sometimes millions of years for the light to travel at the fastest speed matter can travel (which we cannot perceive with our senses) to travel and reach us. Also, these specks are large, far larger than we can conceive. This continues to blow my mind.

Sounds like science, and it is, but it is also the most spiritual moments for me. And I do a dangerous thing and believe they compliment each other. Science and Spirituality inspire each other.
I see that both are about wonder. Wonder from glimpsing our place in the world, the Universe.

Much of my free time is spent taking walks, contemplating my place in the universe (and possibly multi-verses). I am fascinated taking in my immediate surroundings and imagining its place in the vast cosmos. I have always enjoyed the woods, parks or just wandering around the neighbors of lower Westchester, becoming lost in my thoughts and the enjoyment of noticing something I had not before; a nest, how the wind makes waves as it moves down the ivy on the side of a building, a singing bird or a passing conversation.

I daydream about the structures of it all, thought experiments I could say if I was Einstein (a hero of mine). I ask myself basic questions and try to find rationales that illustrate as many points of views I can come up with. Usually defer to which scenario allows for such diverse point of views existing or no points of view all at once. My default opinion is what brings diversity and possibilities to the Universe.

I have been musing over my personal place in the world for as long as I can remember. I have wanted to write these thoughts and share them for as long as I can remember. Included in this dream have been several versions of a book I have been working on for almost 2 decades, without much to show for it. It is difficult to sum up how one sees the Infinitely complex Universe.

So, I have begun to think of this vehicle for my thoughts. This site will hopefully live longer than past efforts. I hope to write a few times a week. And not doing so well so far. I will write as I wish on topics such as the nature of GOD, what I believe life is about and my own trials and tribulations attempting to live an enlightened life in today’s society. How wonderful and ridiculous it can be.