The winter winds would rattle the window panes.
Cold air sweeping down along the coastline, bringing sleet.
Bringing snow.
Harbingers of devastation.
He loved those storms.
Layers of white, sometimes six feet deep.
His brothers would scheme and plot and plan convoluted tunnels, caverns carefully carved and excavated through the snow.
He was happy to watch the sunlight filtering through the icicles, painting the porch in rainbows.
We’ve gazed upon the cardinal star from the oldest dregs of history. Provisional visionary, the magnetic anchor, giver of navigation, orientation, reassurance, appreciation, inspiration. Polaris–aptly named; mainstay of the starway, pivot of its pinprick field, nucleus of the galactic atom as seen from the earthly lens. Unobscured by the glow of a full moon, steady in untempered light, a gift (one of many) from higher hands to marvel over under the dark of unoccupied space. Up, above, overhead. North is a rising, a calling, a beckoning, a forward motion, an upward drive. What truer north is there than the stars?
The winter winds would rattle the window panes.
Cold air sweeping down along the coastline, bringing sleet.
Bringing snow.
Harbingers of devastation.
He loved those storms.
Layers of white, sometimes six feet deep.
His brothers would scheme and plot and plan convoluted tunnels, caverns carefully carved and excavated through the snow.
He was happy to watch the sunlight filtering through the icicles, painting the porch in rainbows.
We’ve gazed upon the cardinal star from the oldest dregs of history. Provisional visionary, the magnetic anchor, giver of navigation, orientation, reassurance, appreciation, inspiration. Polaris–aptly named; mainstay of the starway, pivot of its pinprick field, nucleus of the galactic atom as seen from the earthly lens. Unobscured by the glow of a full moon, steady in untempered light, a gift (one of many) from higher hands to marvel over under the dark of unoccupied space. Up, above, overhead. North is a rising, a calling, a beckoning, a forward motion, an upward drive. What truer north is there than the stars?