The Night Sky

This morning I awoke around 5. For those who know me well, this is not unusual...I love the early mornings. My time to think clearly, to sip a cup of coffee and contemplate. Anyway, as I took a large swig of warm coffee, I looked up at the clear night sky...cloudless and vivid as it often is just prior to sunrise.

Directly above me I saw the Big Dipper...Ursa Major. And the two stars the end of the ladle which, as I learned as an Eagle Scout, point downward to Polaris, the North Star. It was as if I was standing in my backyard in Annapolis looking at the sky. No different...aside from the alignment that comes as the Earth turns on its axis. Same constellation...same North Star.

As I looked at the sky, I realized how human and small I feel...yet how connected I feel toward humanity. As I have travelled through my years, I have always found people the most interesting. Old/young. Rich/poor. Places change, languages change. Dress changes. Landscape changes. But, like the sky, the souls of the people we meet remain the same.

Common kinship of humanity. Just a thought.