The same stars your great-great-grandparents saw are over your roof tonight. Some things outlast every trend.

Whatever feels urgent this week has a shelf life of about a month. The sky does not: the arrangement over your house tonight is close enough to what somebody in your family looked at a hundred and fifty years ago, with entirely different worries. That is a useful sense of scale rather than a reason to feel small. Some things keep going regardless of what is happening to you.

Go outside tonight for five minutes without your phone and look up. Learn the name of one thing you can see from where you live. It is a reliable way to put a bad week in proportion, and it costs nothing.