Approaching

Now we have come to the stars.

Beside me, Jenarden speaks of a solar electric system in Hooper that runs on 800 million watts.

Huh?

But I make no effort to ask him.

Instead, my mind is drifting out. Past the solar electricity, past the solar system. I am hushed and dazzled by dark, where stars surface around us the way divers rise. I'm in a jar of night stirred through with diamonds. I am plugged in to eternity.

Scorpio climbs on the right.

Everyone says this when they come to Crestone: "I never knew there were so many stars." I would add, "or so much beauty in this world."