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[geekchick]

I had to turn off all the news channels. I can't watch the footage on endless repeat anymore.

"High Flight"

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

- John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

We couldn't either. Or listen to the speculation, or the mindless filler drivel as they show the footage over and over. We've reverted to BBC America.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you. It made me cry, but in a good way.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Good for you, turning off the TV. There's nothing to apologize for about that.

-J

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Thanks, love. They're going to read the same poem at tomorrow afternoon's "NASA Family Gathering" at work.