sunshine and meteors

i've been operating in slow fever state the past few days. today i was walking down a hallway with carpeted walls, and sound was otherworldly (not to mention the glow bowling i was heading to). all these things i can take just fine, but the heat, it's crazy. i have no air conditioning in my car. my apartment door is made of metal and dangerous to touch half the day, half the year. today i touched a meteorite in a museum, and thought about its former distance from human life. i think about the sun this way, as an impassive and impersonal star, through something amazing and real staying in the right place long enough for life to get moving on this planet. that sun, it just does what it's been doing since it was born, and if a flying saucer or deadly meteorite might get in its path, it will light it up, whether there is someone there to see it or not (history's been mostly not).