Morning Sky

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Hello, friends.  It’s December 17. How is that possible!?  What a year!  Partnering with the lovely and talented Wynne Leon and our HoTM team was joyous – prompting gratitude and wistfulness at year’s end. Taking stock and feeling humbled, especially when Mother Nature sets the stage.  

I restrained myself and demonstrated patience this week.  There’s an exuberance when I write, literally losing all sense of time and space when I’m in flow. I know I’m not alone. Struck by a whoosh of wonder, we draft posts and essays and articles and poetry and more…that pulsate with anticipation.  A heavenly experience. I had one of those this week and I admit I’ve been holding out on you, dear readers, because I wanted to invite you in ONLY after I’d savored and teased out a spectacular pocket of peacefulness. 

This…

A morning sky on December 13 prompted a poem…a moment with Venus before dawn which rendered me speechless for a time. Venus is the glimmering wonder in the lower left-hand of the photo, highlighted by the arrow:

My surprise?  The abundant stars and constellations captured in my photo. Tiny specks of glitter – undetected when I took the pic but waiting for me when I gazed at the photo later on.  Hello, I thought.  I was after your super star, Venus, but look at you – showstoppers, all.  You were waiting to greet me as well. (Note: I wish my photo captured all of the glittery bits of the other stars, but they just don’t pop. Trust me – they were there. Twinkling as they should, trying to compete with Venus.)

Later that day, I was on a mission. First, I needed to confirm that my photo captured Venus. Hubster Paul’s the stargazer in the house and I got an earful about the constellations along with, “You know Venus isn’t a star – it’s a planet, right?”. I DO love him, and I suppose I deserved his redirect because I was obviously disinterested as he waxed on about other astronomical factoids. 😉

I didn’t intend to be rude, but I was already on a mission of another sort. I wanted to go forth and find a beloved starry quote from Van Gogh.  The gist of it rumbled through my heart, but I wanted to be sure my memory was correct. I found it after rummaging around for a bit and it didn’t disappoint. Van Gogh’s simple message prompted a few reflective verses of my own when combined with my starry photo of Venus in the morning sky:

For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

I hate to be so bold as to say that a combination of Venus, Van Gogh and the stars spoke to me, but the combination prompted peace…and these words:

Eyes Up

There are days when I roar

Make myself known and heard

Preemptive protection, bolstering defenses

Memories of hurts, micro and more loom large, direct my heart

Yet smallness brings clarity

Seeing myself in real time

Cast against heaven’s starlit sky

Ushering insight…I am a traveler

The world is vast and magnificent

Slow down, hold reverence for the beauty

Life is dreamy and fleeting

Cast off prickles from the past

They needn’t be carried

Morning starlight is waiting – ready to heal

Eyes Up

Wherever you are in the world, I wish you peace.  Morning starlight and love.

Vicki 🌟

Oh – I almost forgot!  The universe called and has a message for you. You’ll need to pop over to Victoria Ponders to take a peek. Xo!

49 thoughts on “Morning Sky”

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  4. Beautiful! “Morning starlight is waiting”… I especially love this because we often look for stars at night. Like you, I find something truly magical about looks at the stars just before dawn. Insight? Reverence? It’s all there waiting to be discovered. Such a lovely poem, Vicki. xo 💕

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    1. I love…that you love it. And knowing how brilliant you are…much like the stars, I’m sure you could teach me a thing or two. In my very, very lay-person’s language, the twinkles make me happy and remind me that all of life is magic. Thank you, Erin. Reverence and insight. You’re right! 💕💕💕

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  9. Life is dreamy and fleeting…Cast off prickles from the past. So good. The latter so often makes us forget the former, doesn’t it? Beautiful planet, poem and partnership! So grateful for you and all your wisdom and wonder!! ❤ ❤ ❤

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  13. “The world is vast and magnificent” and “smallness brings clarity”. In the poem. You have a way of capturing the magnificence every morning is possible of presenting to us. A wonderful something to keep in your pocket of peacefulness.

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    1. Thank you, Michael. I stared at that phrase, “smallness brings clarity” trying to think of a better way of expressing what I felt when I took the pic. I’m glad you understood where I was going with it. I felt teensy by comparison, and it was comforting. xo to you for reading and for your lovely comment. 🥰

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  15. Lovely poem. Such talent and you are sharing it with us making us appreciate each star and moment. FYI, I discovered one of our neighbors is an astronomer. He worked for NASA, gives lectures throughout the country and sets up a giant telescope at night in his driveway. You’ve encouraged me to pop over there some night.

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    1. Ohhhh…please, please DO share what you learn. I understand Venus is bright because of pollution and haze around it, which seems like a paradox given how much light emanates from it. You have amazing neighbors! 🥰

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