http://mytraveltales.com/2008/12/02/counting-shooting-stars-big-sur/ My Travel Tales Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:08:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mytraveltales.com/2008/12/02/counting-shooting-stars-big-sur/#comment-31 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:33:26 +0000 http://mytraveltale.wordpress.com/?p=183#comment-31 I just want it known, for the record, that I was winning for most of the game – until the very end! ! (And always by exactly one point over Colette, which she said actually helped her keep track of the score…=) I guess that’s what happens when you close your eyes for 6 seconds under such a luminous sky, pregnant with waiting-to-explode stars. Kids – don’t try this at home. You have to get out of your house…out under the open sky…away from from human light sources…with friends you can enjoy simply gazing at the sky with, detached from any need to do anything, or be anything, or say anything…until…BAM!! ‘I saw one!!’ All bets are off – let the long-forgotten games of idle wonder begin…

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