If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone? - Jodi Picoult

Things don’t always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when you get them pegged under a microscope for find you’re looking at a globular cluster-a million stars that, to us, presents as a single entity. On aless dramatic note there are triples, like Alpha Centauri, which up close turns out to be a double star and a red dwarf inclose proximity.There’s an indigenous tribe in Africa that tells of life coming from the second star in Alpha Centauri, the one no one can see without a high-powered observatory telescope. Come to think of it, the Greeks, the Aboriginals, and the Plains Indians all lived continents apart and all, independently, looked at the same septuplet knot of the Pleiades and believed them tobe seven young girls running away from something that threatened to hurt them.Make of it what you will.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations