Glorious sky.

Last night at midnight I was called to the hospital emergency room to evaluate a person who was in harms way. It's part of my job, at times, to carry the beeper and respond to potential psychosis or poverty (or both) at all times of the night. And there she was, at the age where it is safe to call her a 'youngster', all lonely, chemically imbalanced, beat up and agreeable. I found her a place to stay for the night and a ride to get there and, at the bewitching hour of 3 AM, she thanked me and went on her way. Then, outside in what feels like too cold for September, there was the enormous black sky with such an abundance of stars and planets I almost lost my breath. Times like these, I am amazed at just exactly where I am.