Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Satellite

"Maybe you will always be... Just a little out of reach" - Guster

The sky and the stars have an unexpected effect on people. It can send them over the edge in a good or bad way. But few people leave an observatory unaffected. I wonder why that is.

In the book I'm reading now, "A Fraction of the Whole", a small observatory is built in a little town. Suddenly everybody started showing more love - fathers bought gifts for their sons, husbands took their wives out and children shared their chocolates.

Its nice to know that something so far away can have such a strong impact on people here on earth...