It was approaching 11 PM when, traversing dark fields unpopulated by humans on Hwy 71 between La Grange and Smithville, I looked out the window.

Oh, what magnificence! Scorpio stretched across the southern sky, peppered in stars, its coiled tail dipping into the Milky Way. Saggitarius was adjacent, Jupiter a beacon in its handle.

It has been so long. How I’ve missed the starry sky.