”Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning.” Those words came to me as I gazed at Alpha and Beta Centauri from our hotel balcony in Pape’ete. To their right the unmistakable form of the Southern Cross appeared as a reminder that yes, indeed, we had found our own special Neverland.
As the Earth rotated, these stars drifted steadily to the west while new stars appeared in the east. By morning the bright star Canopus, never seen from our homeland, appeared peeking through a hole in the clouds above the mountains. These seldom-seen stars brightened the night until extinguished by the rising Sun’s glow, and sent our thoughts dancing with delight through the mountains, clouds, and seas of the South Pacific.
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