Admiring the Stellar.

Let’s talk about the stars for a second…

Have you ever tried to photograph the stars with your little phone? I imagine most people have attempted such an action. Personally, I’ve never been able to capture a good picture of the night sky. At first I found this to be infuriating, but honestly I much prefer keeping those moments between the stars and I. There’s something so perfect about the way the stars hide from your screen, but when you look up, they emerge and look into your eyes. There’s a calmness hidden within them, and if you look deep enough, you’ll see it. 

When we admire them, it provides a still moment of peace that I can truly relate to nothing else. 

The other day, I drove about an hour away and watched the sunset. This, of course, lead to me sticking around to see those amazing freckles in the sky. That night I found myself wondering who else was admiring them with me. I pictured the different humans around the world, some with aching hearts for one reason or another… I imagined the stress of reality floating off our shoulders and into a universe forgotten. Because, when I was in that moment, I forgot about it all. I merely existed underneath the stars with all of you.

I’m obsessed with this idea that the stars insist on capturing us instead, and that’s why you can’t simply recruit most phones for the job. It’s as if they don’t want to be posted on your social media, imagine that. Besides, they don’t deserve to be scrolled past on a tiny screen… they deserve their moment with You.

When I thought of all the other humans looking up at the stars, it reminded me that none of us are alone. We’re all going through our own dark valleys, and we’re all amidst this pandemic together.

We’re all just trying to be okay, together.

There’s somehow this unity between the known, and the unknown, which has awakened us to the sonder reality that we exist inside of.