Con (kən : Latin) – with, together.
Sidereus, -a, -um (si- ˈder- ē- üs : Latin) – stars, starry, gleaming.
Consideration (kən-ˌsi-də-ˈrā-shən : English) – careful thought, meditation;
the act of bringing together stars.
My mind is a universe, filled with asteroids
and empty space and old satellite parts. It also has a few stars. Sometimes at
night I’ll shut my eyes and stare up at the domed vault of my skull, admiring
the lights shining in it like holes poked into black construction paper with a
sharpened pencil tip. As I look, white points align and then realign, grooving
iridescent ghosts into the dark matter through which they travel. I comprehend little
red planets winking as their orbits shift with my mere thought of them. Every so
often, a new star spins into existence out of free floating star stuff, adding
a digit to the factorial number of constellations available for my creation. Once
or twice, I’ve had to shield my eyes from the burning light of a supernova
burst; the incredible bright death of a sure thing.
I am a sort of divine mover, a type of creator.
The god of my own mind-sky. I collect celestial dust from books and long walks
and conversations overheard on subway cars, until there is enough of it and
heat and light to compact into something called knowing. Then, I can observe. I
connect bright dots in the sky. I consider.
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