When you don't have a beach, the best kite flying can be done in the desert.
I need feel grounded and yet, I need to take off. I think I can’t do one without the other. Where could I go in life without my string? You really should have one in case you get lost, they’re quite helpful, you know. I feel like I’ll never reach soaring altitude. I look up, I have my target. It’s such a big space. It’s a really big space. That target needs to zero in,
sky to star, sky to star, sky to star.
My star wont ever be that high. Is that a bad thing? I’m sorry to disappoint.
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” -Gandhi
We are always running for the thrill of it thrill of it/
Always pushing up the hill searching for the thrill of it/
On and on and on we are calling out and out again.
This summer, my family took a trip to visit friends in Virginia and Maryland. While we were there, we stopped at the Naval base in PAX that my dad used to be stationed at (we lived there for about 18 months when I was in kindergarten; it was in between two of our tours in Ridgecrest). We attended a Change of Command ceremony for a colleague of his, and afterwards drove around to see the rest of the base. We drove by a park and my mom said “Emily, that park over there is where we used to come play all the time.” “Oh cool,” I replied not really being phased by it, after all it was a generic looking park in a grassy area right next to some woods. “It’s funny,” my mom continued, “I remember you being very afraid of coming here the first few times.” ”Why is that?” I asked.
“You used to tell me that you were very scared and thought something would happen to you if you got too close to the jungle. You were really afraid when you couldn’t see the sky.”
Growing up in the desert does that to you, I guess. You don’t even have to look up to notice it.
“The F-14 first deployed in 1974 with the U.S. Navy aboard USS Enterprise replacing the F-4 Phantom II and was retired from the active U.S. Navy fleet on 22 September 2006, having been replaced by the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.[2] As of 2009, the F-14 is in service with only the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, having been exported to Iran in 1976, during a time when the US had good diplomatic relations with the nation.”
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
To seek the truth and defend it always:…
To my mind,
Growth;
To myself,
Faith
Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak. -Brian Williams
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
That’s not an easy task, dad. But I guess there’s not much room for argument.
