I love the constellation Casseopeia because it was probably the first “real” constellation that I could identify besides Orion’s Belt and The Big Dipper. Casseopeia is the big floppy “W” in the sky, the Queen of Ethiopia. I’d like to take an astronomy course some day. After reading about the constellations here and there for over five years, I still can’t identify that many…but I love the night. I love the night sky. I feel so at home, walking down the dirt road with the gravel crunching under my feet, or sitting on the dock with the lake like glass and the dark sky like a huge dome of diamond points. Although the Perseids are my heart, I think the January Quadrantids fuel my soul. There’s something about being bundled up in several coats, wrapped in blankets or a sleeping bag, and sitting on the frozen tundra of lake waiting for the faint flashes of meteors as the earth tilts into the stream. It’s so cold and silent. So isolated, but not lonely. Crystalline.