This is Charlie.

I met Charlie when I was climbing the rocks that overlook the ocean in Jamestown, Rhode Island.  He was sitting quietly with a notepad and a sextant.  Every few minutes he would take a reading from the sextant by aligning the position of the sun with the horizon, and carefully write it down in a neat column next to the time.  "My watch," he said, "shows me Greenwich Mean Time."  I asked him why he was doing this, and he said "Well, it shows me where I am."  When I asked if it wasn't easier to use a GPS, he laughed and said that it would be a lot easier and a lot more accurate.  He said "I've been doing this for 35 years.  It's my hobby".  He then showed me how the sextant worked and asked me to write down the next readings.

Now Charlie, of course, knew where he was.  He lived in Jamestown and has come to this spot overlooking the ocean many times, so I didn't really believe that Charlie needed a sextant to tell him where he was.  At first I was confused as to why someone would do this.  But then it came to me.

I think that sometimes when we find order in the universe, it stirs our hearts to new heights.  I think Charlie had found a way to see this order, and so he sat - overlooking a beautiful blue ocean - peering into the heavens, and at the horizon. 
Connecting the two.

And I think this may be a good point to quote from a new favorite poet of mine, John Davidson (1857 - 1909) -

God, smiling, took him by the hand,
And led him to the brink of heaven:
He saw where systems whirling stand,
Where galaxies like snow are driven.