December 21, 2020
THE BIG PICTURE
2020 wasn’t all bad!
Tonight and these nights
near Christmas – Jupiter
and Saturn – are within 0.1
degrees to each other.
Yet they are 450 million miles apart.
The last time this happened
was 800 years ago and the next
time is going to be 2080. Not bad,
but I won’t be alive in 2080.
So tonight - obviously - I was out
there looking into the southwest sky.
Ugh! All was cloudy. All was gray.
Yet I knew from what I read, like life,
what I wasn’t seeing was right there.
Tonight and these nights
near Christmas – Jupiter
and Saturn – are within 0.1
degrees to each other.
The last time this happened
was 800 years ago and the next
time is going to be 2080. Not bad,
but I won’t be alive in 2080.
there looking into the southwest sky.
Ugh! All was cloudy. All was gray.
Yet I knew from what I read, like life,
what I wasn’t seeing was right there.
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2020
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