Seek your counsel in the night sky.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
A man stood out on the dark lawn behind the Hallorans' house for most of an hour last night, not moving, head back. I assumed grief, because I assume grief; I have been wrong about that for years and keep doing it. He was only looking. For a long time I thought the sky was where people went when they ran out of people, a last resort, the cold consolation you take when the warm ones are closed. Seek your counsel in the night sky, I wrote, and then sat with how little it answers back and how that seemed to be the point for him. He went in around the time the air turned, and the porch light caught nothing in his face I could read.
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
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