☀️ The Daily Boost #822

Remember to shine (and blow bubbles)

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ALL THE NIGHT STARS
Julia Vinograd

Look up at night at all the stars
looking down at you, at the part of you that shines.
There are too many stars for numbers,
there are too many people for numbers.
The stars shine forever, even when dead.
So do we. Ignore the background noise
of wars and video games and dinosaurs giving speeches.
Fear is a sheer nighty on a skeleton.
Sorrow is wild flowers in a graveyard over our tomorrows.
Look past all that.
Look up at night at all the stars
looking down at you, at the part of you that shines.
Always remember to shine.


(from Between the Cracks)

(My thanks to Julia Vinograd for the poem, via Poetry Flash, and to

Ken Paul Rosenthal

for the film trailer.)

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