Is there a star the heavens can do without?
From Freedom and Other Responsibilities, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Clear night, cold enough that the branch stung my feet, and I sat out on the maple counting until I lost my place somewhere over the roof of the Delgado house. For years I thought the sky was made of the bright ones, the handful you can name, and the rest were filler, the way a crowd is filler behind a man giving a speech. But last night there was a faint one near the chimney that kept sliding out of sight when I looked straight at it, and when it went I noticed the gap. Is there a star the heavens can do without. Switch came down the trunk around then and asked what I was staring at and I could not point to it, which is a strange thing to be sure of and unable to show.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- We hold ourselves less accountable for the things we meant to do otherwise.
- Is a tree not free because it has a root growing into the earth?
- We may not be the master of our own fate, but we are its chief architect.
- If you’re tired of the same old story, you’re not as tired as you think.
- If it wasn’t your first time, it won’t be your last.
- By the time most of us begin to know ourselves, there seems too much to know.