Twinkle Twinkle

It occurred to the child who had become an adult, then a child again, as it stood alone in a darkened field, that there was absolutely nothing between itself and the moon above, or between itself and that distant star, or that one, or that one over there.

Like many of the perceptions of this middle-aged child, the simultaneous closeness and vastness of the universe was both empowering and humbling.