This weekend I went to my hometown. Small doesn't even begin to describe it and I'm so glad I got out of there. (That's funny ‘cause I used to never want to leave it.) But small town's do have their good qualities and being able to stargaze is one of them.
Away from the light pollution of the city you can see millions of stars from one horizon to another. Constellations that you know by heart, if your from there, begin to say hello as the sun fades into oblivion and the moon rises. Orion, the little dipper and the milky way make their familiar path through the grand Texas sky as we sit by the fire in the coolness of late September. Clearing our lungs from the smog with clean air and listening to crickets sing their love songs. Reminiscing about times gone by with long lost friends. These are things I miss about a small town.
But now I’m back in the big city, the only stars that can be seen are the brightest ones and poser planets. I will go about my busy life and always keep in my heart the memories of childhood. Laying on the trampoline watching a sky that seemed to never change night after night.
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