Cas Wolan In a hangar at the airport, Where a brooding pilot blinks, Deeply graven is the message -- It is later than you think. The clock of life is wound but once, And no man has the power To tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour. Now is the time you own; The past's a golden link. Go flying now, my brother -- It's later than you think.
The Old Pilot by Donald Hall <https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/author.php%3Fauth_id=1222.html> He discovers himself on an old airfield. He thinks he was there before, but rain has washed out the lettering of a sign. A single biplane, all struts and wires, stands in the long grass and wildflowers. He pulls himself into the narrow cockpit although his muscles are stiff and sits like an egg in a nest of canvas. He sees that the machine gun has rusted. The glass over the instruments has broken, and the red arrows are gone from his gas gauge and his altimeter. When he looks up, his propeller is turning, although no one was there to snap it. He lets out the throttle. The engine catches and the propeller spins into the wind. He bumps over holes in the grass, and he remembers to pull back on the stick. He rises from the land in a high bounce which gets higher, and suddenly he is flying again. He feels the old fear, and rising over the fields the old gratitude. In the distance, circling in a beam of late sun like birds migrating, there are the wings of a thousand biplanes. The Fly William Blake <https://poets.org/poet/william-blake> - 1757-1827 Little fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath, And the want Of thought is death, Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die. > On Jun 17, 2022, at 10:57 AM, Flesner via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: > > >> The moral of his story (and so many others), is to finish building the damn >> plane, because you are one failed medical away from not being able to fly >> anymore! >> >> Mark Langford > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > You won't know when your last flight will be until AFTER it happens. Mine, > at this point, was last October on a biscuit and gravy flight. I'm still > hoping to change that. > > Larry Flesner > > -- > KRnet mailing list > KRnet@list.krnet.org > https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet
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