Thank Your Lucky Stars

 Count your Lucky Stars

In the last entry the moon was the star…so to speak.. and on earth we have only one moon and in “our solar system”==as if humans can claim ownership over a solar system?  After all, we live here on earth and yet we claim it all?  Isn’t that like living in a shed somewhere  in Eastern Alabama and claiming New York City is yours?  Oh well… back to thanking some stars…. Okay which stars should we thank and how many should we thank just to make sure we get the lucky ones?  After all we wouldn’t want to thank some that really don’t deserve it by mistake you know.  So where to begin?  

Well in “our solar system” there is one star so MR. Sunshine—-thank you.  All in all with the exception of that causing cancer thing you do..we appreciate the fact. That you help all the plants grow, provide pretty much. All the light we get outside, and once we get the whole solar panel thing figured out you might keep us from fighting over  who gets rich from extracting fossil fuels from the ground. 

Now let’s expand a bit to”our galaxy.”  Again we claim to own it as ours and that’s like that’s like a fry cook at McDonald’s claiming to be a chef at the Four Seasons… but forgiving that let’s just move on to the stary night in the Milky Way.   Some estimates say there are a hundred million or so stars in the Milky Way.   Has anybody ever counted? Think about it… If we count 1,2,3,4…. About 1 count per second and do that for 16 hours a day—gotta have time to eat and sleep… it would take about 16 days to count a million.  If that’s accurate and your phone didn’t go off reminding you of your teeth cleaning and causing you to have to start over, it would take just a bit short of five years to count to the 100 million mark.  

So five years from now when you’ve got them all counted how do you choose which ones are lucky?  Oh and let’s say we had some way of picking the lucky ones right when we started counting.  Just because they are lucky for us are they lucky for everybody?  Oh and even if star number 17,345,789  was lucky when we counted it can we guarantee that it is still lucky and deserving of thanks when 89,034,142 comes into view?  How do we know?  Of course, we don’t even want to wonder  about the accuracy of our count when we didn’t clean that little piece of a fire fly that drifted onto our lens and might have been counted sometime in the third year?  

So where does that leave us if we want to thank our lucky stars?  Well…here’s a proposition related to seeking peace and joy.  Let’s accept that each of these stars is providing us something to be curious about and that is a fortunate thing—so say thanks for that.  Let’s say some of these stars “fall” and they aren’t really stars… but we call them that and these falling stars give us something to tie a wish to and keep our spirits up so… thanks for that.  Ancient mariners (no not really old Seattle baseball players) used groups of these. Stars to navigate the. Planet and some did it better than others didn’t they mr. Columbus?   Nonetheless… we used them to get from here to there…so thanks for that.  So you see there are a lot of reasons to be thankful for almost any star might be helpful for something at some time or another and being ready to say thanks seems like a reasonable stance.  Oh.. and when we think of it aren’t a lot of people sort of like stars…you know providing a little help in unexpected ways at somewhat unexpected times.  Hasn’t someone said “hey your shoe is untied.”  Hasn’t somebody pointed to your tire and said… wow that looks like it might be flat?”  Do your servers ever say.. “careful that’s hot” when they bring your food out?   You see… our lucky stars/people  might be all around and since there are so. Many of them let’s start counting… 1..2..3… see you in 2029?