Stars

I am at a very small base near Jordan. Without stadium lights or street lights the walkways and gravel roads are plunged into blackness. I walk to the shower. I forgot my flashlight so I have to go slow. And for a moment I stop and look up, to the stars and the faint, cloudy Milky Way. At most of the other bases you can't see anything past the great lights and sandy skies. For some reason seeing these stars makes me feel connected to those starry, childhood nights laying on the dock on the lake. It's not that I ever feel un-human here, its just that I feel more human tonight somehow.