What do you decide for yourself when you look up into the darkness
at the stars and planets playing circles above your head so high?
Can you find any answers? Does it make you happy or afraid?

Does it seem as if you think you know why it is all there,
or does the sky leave you bewildered?

I have no answers, answers that will satisfy your questions or mine.
But I have noticed the circles, and found some ideas.
To me, Circles are another way of representing life. Everywhere
you go things are circular. The sharp angles formed by squares,
and rectangles and geometric figures are there just to keep the
circles seperated. Think of these things:

A tree trunk is round, as are its branches and roots.
A flower stem is round, as its petals form a circular pattern
and some have circular dots on their petals. A woman or a man's
neck is round, as are the arms, legs the eyes, head and fingers.
The ovaries inside, the blood vessels within, all are round in
their shape. Our life cycle forms a circular pattern, we are born,
have children, die, and they continue in the same way. We eat in
a circular pattern. Our days go to night, back to day, in a
neverceasing existence of days, from one to the next,
as the sun circles the Earth, as the Earth turns itself, and as
our moon, the stars and planets all revolve around one another.

The shape of our Earth, and the universe is circular, its contents
all seeming to have the same shape. A droplet of water forms a circle.
Fish in the sea have bodies that are oblong circles and many other
circular forms. The shells on the beach are round or like conch shells,
have hidden winding circular staircases to the pointed end of their shell.

If we wonder about life, and find little to prove that it continues on
and on for ourselves, take a minute and decide if the circles all
around you don't prove anything. What are they saying? What do they
show? Perhaps, as with all of the circles we see each day, it never
ends, but continues on through a circular pattern onto something else,
until it finds it's end or it's beginning and starts the circle again.

This may not answer all the questions you find, but when I noticed the
circles in the stars and planets playing circles above my head so high,
I thought about it all over again.

-Janet Potter
August 25, 1982