Heart and Solar System

Insomnia has been my old friend for the last 25 years at least. It tends to come when I am stressed or grieving which tends to make me feel worse than I already do. As much as I dislike it, (insomnia and perhaps by extension stress and grief) has enabled me to step outside my day--the daytime me--into a world apart from the one that troubles me. During the good times, during the bad, and most especially during the terrible, when I lay unwillingly away and seek solitude and quiet, I seem to always find myself curled up and wide-eyed under a blanket of stars. Over the years location hasn't always allowed me to see the night sky in all the wonder it contains. Light...