Shooting star

I had dinner last night with a colleague of mine who founded TACARE, the Jane Goodall Institute program in Kigoma, with which I am now affiliated. At the end of our dinner there was the most brilliant shooting star - unlike any I have ever seen before, with a long tail that trailed across the sky as the "star" sunk toward the Indian Ocean. George told me to "make a wish," and I thought to myself: "I already have."