Tonight

Cold and clear...a quiet night of homemade pizza and watching old movies...we are all tired from the week.  After dinner Nancy went to bed and I read Bear from a book written here nearly a century ago called "The old man and me" about a grandpa and a young boy growing up in coastal NC maybe around the early 1900s.  So much of it rings true in its homey parlance about hunting and camping with life lessons interwoven with local color.  Bear fell asleep after two paragraphs but I read another page or so just because.  Anyway, afterwards I put on my coat and went down to the dock to reflect on the day.  The reflecting I would have done though was eclipsed by the brilliant night sky of 10 million stars reflecting on the still waters of the slough.  It takes my breath away each time I see it.  Not a sound other than the waves crashing on the beach...no other light than that of distant houses and maybe one or two street lights a mile away.  I can see the pulse of the Oak Island lighthouse 10 miles to the East, occasionally something jumps and splashes in the water near our dock.  I am reminded of the brevity of our life, the importance of family and friends, the immenseness of the universe and the beauty of our small home here.  I know that it will not last and that makes it even more precious.  To bed now and to sleep...God Bless.