tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post3509678743037728242..comments2023-10-20T08:28:27.175-07:00Comments on Writerquake: while with silent lifting mind I've trod . . .Lydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135393270656573516noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post-25797162161879684222009-05-12T23:16:00.000-07:002009-05-12T23:16:00.000-07:00@Friko- Your expressions here were beautiful, and ...@Friko- Your expressions here were beautiful, and your two questions are deep. I wonder if the space program initially considered what decades of space dumping would eventually mean. I certainly wonder what it will all come to....<br /><br />@RB- Yes, me too, especially since in my lifetime all frontiers on earth were officially tromped over. <br /><br />@Darlene- That's why I've saved the video in bookmarks - to watch when I need a thrill!<br /><br />@Looking to the Stars- That is what telescopes are for, my friend. :)<br /><br />@Mark- I feel as though my breathing will be shallow until we learn that they are safely back on Earth. Then the poem can be a celebration instead of a prayer...Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11135393270656573516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post-48450541005325277552009-05-12T13:38:00.000-07:002009-05-12T13:38:00.000-07:00What this crew is tasked to do is nothing short of...What this crew is tasked to do is nothing short of amazing.<br />I have always loved this poem, it holds a special place in my heart.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08237538988856751173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post-61222972788819468442009-05-12T11:59:00.000-07:002009-05-12T11:59:00.000-07:00I love reading tidbits about people, thank you for...I love reading tidbits about people, thank you for sharing. The poem is a delight to the soul, I love it. I have always looked to the stars and found the heavens very intersting but not enough to lift my heels from the soil, that is for the more adventurous soul then I :)Looking to the Starshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13211255507065858940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post-19236662437766055482009-05-12T11:07:00.000-07:002009-05-12T11:07:00.000-07:00That video was beautiful, but a bit scary. It look...That video was beautiful, but a bit scary. It looked like they were flying so low that they might crash into one of those peaks.<br /><br />I, too, love that poem It is one to treasure.Darlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18373134676852496647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post-78722786783873323352009-05-12T07:03:00.001-07:002009-05-12T07:03:00.001-07:00I've always thought of space as the Last Frontier,...I've always thought of space as the Last Frontier, with all that old world romanticism it entails.RBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11229168317354334361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post-73711810147433930572009-05-12T04:11:00.000-07:002009-05-12T04:11:00.000-07:00Space flights: awesome, breathtaking, heroic, insp...Space flights: awesome, breathtaking, heroic, inspiring; man's infinite ambition to reach the stars, both metaphorically and literally, is all that. The term "Hero" is so often meaninglessly debased nowadays, for the people on this flight it is the true description.<br /><br />And still - there is a part of me which asks: <br />do we really need to litter and pollute the heavens too?<br /><br />Nothing is ever easy, is it?Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.com