I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my … - Chet Raymo

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Chet Raymo

I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.

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