More Columbia
And I think I'm okay and settling down, and then something else sets me off. Josh quoted a line from Le Guin, but I think whole verse (from The Creation of Éa) is worth repeating:
Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.
I can't find my copy of Technical Difficulties' album Please Stand By, but bits of their Challenger memorial song ("Dedication," by Jean Stevenson) also keep running through my head:
Others will fly in that tempting void that waits beyond the sky;
We'll control the lightning once again.