The Soul of the Night Sky

We city dwellers miss much of the experience of awe and wonder that the night sky can bring (“Star-Struck,” by K.C. Cole, Feb. 14).

I just got back from a tour of the Mayan ruins at Uxmal, Mexico, deep in the Yucatan jungle and away from the artificial lights of the city.

The highlight there was a night show during which a narrator tells of two young lovers while the lighting on the temples plays off and on against the blackness of the sky. When the lights first went off, I was hit by vertigo--the sky was so deep and filled with stars.

I will definitely take my 3-year-old daughter on a pilgrimage to visit that wise priest, Ed Krupp, atop his funny-shaped pyramid, the Griffith Observatory.

Pancho Valle

Los Angeles