Category: Auto-biographical
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Loco Ocean Life
Cabin fever – Going Crazy on a boat Your mind is an interesting thing. It can be a great contributor of thoughts of valor and intrigue but… It can also be its own undoing. Since nearing 8 months in the fishing ground. The relevance of “That guy said he was going crazy ” is more…
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Good Pilot! I can be that!
Good Pilot We must first examine a balance that can make a pilot 'good.' A good balance of attributes seems to be the key. A balance that can prevent the hazardous attitudes of aviation. Except for anti-authority, a slight amount of this is required because your ship, your ultimate command decision may be needed without…
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Cepheus Flare
to paraphrase an old song: “It's my birthday, and I'll rhyme if I want to.” I scribbled a poem. I love astronomy. Seen this image? Innit awesome… Cepheus Flare I am old, But Patiently, over millions of years, And light years wide Without blood or tears I grew my wings. No-one died Across my divide…
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Three Suns in an Ochre Sky
ESO/M. Kornmesser Three Suns in an Ochre Sky In the year thirty, thirty three At Gliese six-six-seven Cee We monitored our landing thrust then touched down gently in the dust. It wasn't until the second day That I could quietly slip away. Laboriously I climbed a hill And almost choking on the thrill I turned…
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Child of the Universe
Small Magellanic Cloud Child of the Universe There exists a nameless, dream-like, wandering state anonymous To which, oddly, I aspire. A following of The Way, Quiet and unassuming in manner A self effacing journey of submersion Totally, without appeal into my Father's house, the Universe. Sometimes, people say kind words about my expression of my…
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The Vistas of Cosmology
The vistas of cosmology While I bumble about the place I love to ponder aerospace I love to wonder at the stars Whilst peering past my prison bars I've lived too long with shuttered mind Along with most of humankind But Science now has gifted me The vistas of cosmology. I've stood upon the Martian…
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My Refuge is a Sunlit Sky
My refuge is a Sunlit Sky No man can wander 'round this globe A staff in hand and hermit robe From child-like fresh to well-scarred old And fail to note so many ills. He may be brilliant, rich in skills And never want for bread or gold But if there lurks a heart beneath The…
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In Saturn’s Patient Shadow
In Saturn’s patient shadow Shielded from the Sun’s glare I lingered for a while Mischievously, Reflecting on the sunlit byways As yet, untraveled Where Man, one day May gingerly, Set foot. Soaking in the Rings And saturated in immensity I’m delighted to see And hear, and sense The Great Cosmic Kindness A latent,…
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I have stood on the surface of Mars
I have stood on the surface of Mars and seen, high in the sky, at sunset a tiny star, bright but small reminding me, in all its pale blue fragility of the smallness of Man. We are dreamers, you and I, fellow travelers, for a while puzzling out, musingly, the greatest quest ever conceived. I…
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Veritas
“THE MOST DANGEROUS RISK OF ALL – THE RISK OF SPENDING YOUR LIFE NOT DOING WHAT YOU WANT ON THE BET YOU CAN BUY YOURSELF THE FREEDOM LATER… ” Veritas is a Latin word meaning truth… A symbol of my longing for freedom and my hobby of flying things. To see the world on the…