When you wish upon a star....

Star light,
Star bright,
first star
I see
tonight....

children standing at a window, or sitting in a swing; alone on a hill top or walking home from play....is there a child who did not know this verse? Do boy children know this verse, or just the little girls? So many questions.
Are you still tempted in the failing light of day to wish upon a star? Do you "wish I may, wish I might,have the wish I wish tonight"? Do the dreams of children go someplace as they age? Do wishes become things that are uttered with a tired sign as " oh, I wish........and then whatever is their burden?

Does it seem to anyone else that wishes are magical things as a child ? And that they become utterings of quiet desperation as an adult? Why is "I wish it would rain" or "I wish you a happy holiday season" so different from "I wish I had more money", or "less stress", or "some alone time"?
Do we ever still wonder if maybe we went to the third star from the right, we'd go straight on til morning? Have we lost the magic? If there was a store selling "what ifs", wouldn't we all want to rush out and get some? And what is a "what if" but hope ? And isn't that just what wishing on a star is all about?

I'm feeling quite unsettled this evening. Displaced in time and space. I'm not sure if everyone is extra busy today, or the gremlins are at work, but none of my daily blog reads have any posting from today. I checked to see if I had accidently put my computer in the "working offline" mode, but I hadn't. So where is everyone? The absence of input has caused a disturbance in the force. And that has caused me to wish on the Evening Star as dusk fell.
This quilt is called Evening Star. I don't do many 3 fabric quilts. Probably could count on 1 hand how many I've done that aren't scrap. But I fell in love with the rust, black and brown floral in Longmont, CO. It became this quilt. Machine pieced, hand quilted. 1997 I will try for a better picture with my digital.