Shooting star...

I just saw the most amazing shooting star. It was as if it landed right behind my fence it was so close! The most whitest, purest, essence of light I have ever seen in my life. I was thinking about Aidan (a young man that lived two doors down from me, died tragically in an accidental shooting today or yesterday) and looked up - there it was. When I lived in Austria years ago, I was outside one evening with Billiana (Slavic wife of an Austrian teacher I worked with) and we saw a shooting star together. She said it was the belief in her country that another soul had gone to heaven. *smiles* And I think she was right.