How The Night Sky Changed My Perspective

Australian sky. Image © International Darksky Association (https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/parks/warrumbungle/)

Growing up on a farm in southern Australia, I grew accustomed to seeing a spectacular number of stars in the night sky. Often, after dusk, the dishes done and the nightly TV news on ABC consumed, I’d head out the screen door off the kitchen and stand on the edge of the verandah, my toes curling over its edge, the farm stretching out in front of me in the pitch black.