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Stargazing

"we were never strangers, you were right there all along"

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Aly Buechler
May 31, 2026
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One of our first pics taken together (2001)

Stargazing by Myles Smith is the song I woke up singing. These are the wake-up-to songs that get to me; I can’t remember the last time I heard it, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t hear it somewhere, somehow, in the last few days. This is exactly when I think the lyrics may hold a message just for me. Some information or moment I need, but the universe knows, it must come to me indirectly first, via music.

Hmm. In reading the lyrics, maybe this is a time that I solely appreciate the poetry within a song??? The lyrics are a little too lovey-dovey for it to be an indirect message from the universe.

Hmm. Or maybe the universe has gone really, Really, REALLY indirect!!

Ugh, I thought, one more look before I dismiss it altogether.

You and I stargazing

Intertwining souls

We were never strangers

You were right there all along

Wait.

Message received. Actually, sweet memory received.

As I was writing “intertwining”, a memory of David, my late husband, came to me. …

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