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Why do you stand here looking into the sky? A few weeks ago I woke my family before dawn to try to catch a glimpse of the “blood moon” lunar eclipse. A few weeks before that, we’d strained our eyes through a plane window to catch the slightest glimmer of the northern lights pirouetting through unexpected skies. We moved back south this year, so a few weeks before that, on a visit to New England, my northern-born youngest child stuck her tongue out to catch snowflakes as if it were her very first time. She was filled with adoration, and when I asked her what she loved most about the snow, she replied, “Mommy, it is like all the stars falling from the sky.”
