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 Post subject: the skyPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 11:38 am 
hey everyone, i came across this passage in a book i was reading today, and well... it did so much more than just remind me of eisley... if you know what i mean. felt that i had to share it... sorry it's so long. Pull up, far up, nose high in the milkblue sky. And we roll. Earth and sky joyously twined in a blur of dwindling emerald and turquoise. Stop the roll swiftly, upside down, bring the nose again through the horizon, roll back to straight and level. The sky is a place for living and for whistling and for singing and for dying. It is a place that is built to give people a place from which to look down on all the others. It is always fresh and awake and clear and cold, for when the cloud covers the sky or fills the place where they sky should be, the sky is gone. The sky is a place where the air is ice and you breath it and you live it and you wish that you could float and dream and race and play all the days of your life. The sky is there for everyone, yet only a few seek it out. It is all colour, all heat and cold, all oxygen and forest leaves and sweet air and salt air and fresh crystal air that has never been breathed before. The sky whirs around you, keening and hissing over your head and face and it gets in your eyes and numbs your ears in a coldness that is bright and sharp. You can drink it and chew it and swallow it. You can rip your fingers through the rush of sky and the hard wind. It is your very life inside you and over your head and beneath your feet. You shout a song and the sky sweeps it away, twisting and tumbling it through the hard liquid air. You can climb to the top of it, fall with it twisting and rushing around you, leap clear, arms wide, catching the air with your teeth. It holds the stars at night as strongly as it holds the brazen sun in the day. You shout a laugh of joy, and the rush of the wind is there to carry the laugh a thousand miles. From: Stranger to the Ground; Richard Bach; 1963 |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 1:56 pm
now that's just nifty. makes me think of spoken word sorts of things, for some reason. _________________ I highly recommend it. |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:08 pm
i like it... |
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Joined: 18 Apr 2003 | Posts: 3939 | Location: here
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 1:01 pm
niiiice _________________ it seems that i'm seasoned to be in the season of the old me |
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Joined: 16 May 2003 | Posts: 22 | Location: flower mound, tx
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