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Okay so, this thing hasn't really been in CONSTANT USE as y'all could probably tell from the dust-dust-dust levels over all the crappy TEXT. BUT!~..
I guess I could slam something down here for the entertainment of the masses.
SO, ON THE SUBJECT OF STARGAZING.
Have any of you, young or old, ever taken the chance to clamber up on the highest thing available [in my case it happens to be the DECK, of which admittedly it is not tall at all but instead rather SHORT] just so you could lie back and LOOK at them? The stars, I mean, not the little milling lights all around a cityscape or sommat. And I mean look, not just glance up and then doze off. I actually do that sometimes, standing outside in the middle of the street with my head tilted back to stare, mouth agape, into the endless mass of dark and pinpricks. I suppose the time taken is one of the reasons that I always, always see a shooting star or three, and I always, always make wishes on them [and yes, even on the first star I see - the childhood tradition is not not lost even twelve years later] and so far they've been true to the flashes of light they were made on. It's a shame you can't reach up and burry your fingers in the extravagant, elegant tapastry that is the night sky so as to bring it down around your shoulders like a protective cloak, but Alas. One can not have everything.~]
