Behold the Stars

What is Behold the Stars all about? 

Behold the Stars is a blog about keeping your head on straight, staying upbeat, following your heart, accomplishing your goals, and finding a way to have a great life now – because  you have one; although you may not realize it.  It’s a place where I, an information junkie, can share the great things I come across.

Where does the phrase “Behold the Stars” come from? 

It is a reference to the final line of Dante’s Inferno,: “And we again beheld the stars.”

The Inferno begins with the famous lines, “In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.” It goes downhill (no pun intended) from there as Dante finds himself in Hell. There people face all the usual Hell stuff: stung by wasps, trapped in putrid soil while being torn apart constantly by Cerberus’s three sets of bloody teeth, wallowing in a boiling river of blood, burning sands, rains of fire – well, you know. Anyway, Dante survives that and manages to find his way out.  The closing line of Inferno is this: “And we again beheld the stars.”

Some of us have gone through a journey through our own personal Hells. I am one. Mine was about six years long, and the worst part about three.  Unlike many, I was allowed to simply walk out seemingly unscathed. That final line reminds me of what I have been through and how lucky I feel to be back. It also reminds me how great my life is, how lucky I am, that I must remember those things each day, and that I should share what I’ve learned both in Hell and out. Thus the site.

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