Anatomy of a Marriage

We stay up late to watch the Perseid meteor shower, late for us now being after 9. We end up moving our individual lawn chairs to separate parts of the front lawn, apparently more interested in our individual views of the heavens than our proximity as a couple. We see no meteors as we watch the stars begin to appear, but three satellites pass overhead in less than a minute, and this makes me feel some wonder at what humanity has accomplished. You then go inside as I start to doze and return with word that the internet astronomers have pronounced 4am as the prime viewing time. So off we go to bed and sleep. At 4 I wake, bundle up in an old bathrobe, and head out into the star covered yard. Eventually you follow and we watch as several meteors shower past in as many minutes. Content that we have seen it, although definitely less impressed than we remember, we head back to bed and sleep. (for Carol - 8/13/23)