Deep Night, Dark Night

I grew up in cities and suburbs, a child of television and computers. When I went to basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma - the middle of nowhere - and we camped out in the field, that was the first time I saw what the night sky really looks like. It was absolutely breathtaking, seeing the Milky Way and the millions of stars that are visible in a clear sky without light pollution. I often think about that experience and about how that was how it looked to everyone, everywhere, for all of human history up until the last x00 years. Basic sucked but that was unquestionably the highlight of that time for me and one of the highlights of my life so far.

the old night persists in spaces where the light of the world had gone out -- underground, in caves and tunnels. interestingly enough, those are the spaces we traditionally associate with hell.