It was seconds to running out of fuel.
But, he had an outward calm about him.
Yes, the Eagle has landed.
No doubt, the Crafter Artisan, Chuck Yeager, another test pilot, the first to break sound barrier, might have been impressed, although Yeager being very competitive in nature, he might not have openly expressed it. Why give that “engineer,” any credit?
Continue reading No Hero, just an engineer.
I still remember it.
You bet your life, I do.
All though it might have been a rerun couple of years later, it was — that long ago, and I was definitely young at the time (sigh).
I remember it, even though, she didn’t have the crazy hair.
But you could see Groucho was impressed. He even said so at the time.
It takes talent to know talent. Natural talent, that is — it’s called Temperament
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She attempted to have the book censored or banned in the United States.
No, she wasn’t your socially conservative female.
Yes, in 1962 it was viewed as a scandalous book: Sex and the Single Girl advocated having sex before marriage, and gave advice on how to have an affair.
And she was married.
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Ben Affleck may direct a Justice League of America film as he has reportedly been sent a script by Warner Bros.: “Affleck is the only candidate who’s been sent Will Beall’s Justice League script.” The Bostonian actor/writer/producer/director has recently only directed movies that he also stars in. Leading some to believe that he might even don some superhero tights if he takes the project on. Sources add that the JLA movie would be slated for summer 2015, meaning it would go toe-to-toe against it’s direct competitor The Avengers 2. Speaking of The Avengers 2: Joss Whedon has signed on to write and direct the film, as well as an Avenger’s TV show of some kind for ABC. Though Affleck’s camp is trying to downplay the news story; Warner Bros. does well for itself to put the idea out there that a JLA film is indeed happening and all they need now is a Director. Why does Warner Bros. want a JLA film so badly? Why. Because anyone who’s anyone has their own well-balanced Super-Squad. Super-Squad, you ask? Let’s take a look.
People are different in fundamental ways. They want different things ; they have different motives, purposes, aims, values, needs, drives, impulses, urges. Nothing is more fundamental than that. They believe differently, they think, cognize, conceptualize, perceive, understand, comprehend, and cogitate differently. And of course, manners of acting and emoting, governed as they are by wants and beliefs, follow suit and differ radically among people.
— Please Understand Me p. 2
Most of us struggle to find what we do best: natural talent and circumstance is not aligned.
But on this rare occasion, he could hear it, clearly — from the beginning.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings,
there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Pythagoras
For he was a Natural.
A Composer that became a composer, from the start.
God bless the child,
who’s got his own.
Billy Holiday
It was really an impossible task for anybody. Especially for Jack.
Except for him.
There he was in the small room — secret service keeping him there, he, not knowing what was happening.
Jack had essentially had cut him off from power for three years.
Powerless. A Fox on a Leash.
The first Vice President, had described it as “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”
But then one of Kennedy’s aides, came to him in that small hospital room, and said with some solemnity — “Mr President..”
The person still has the record for being the youngest astronaut in space.
It was quite a Ride.
“Let’s Light This Candle”
Alan Shepard
He had a voice, and he had found it.
And his natural talent was to teach, using that voice.
He did what he loved, and loved what he did.
“Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs…” [The 8th Habit]
And that’s what he did, for he was a Teacher Idealist, a Proactive Idealist.
An Educator. “… as inherent in the word educator, it has to be educed by an individual skilled in drawing out potentials. In this interaction the Diplomatic Initiators have an edge over all others, including the other Idealists. They seem uncannily able to influence those who seek to improve what they say and do at work.” — Dr. David Keirsey
“My Brain is Open,” he announced through the phone as it was picked up by his colleague on the other side.
The colleague knew the voice, for he probably had a number 1, already — or soon it would be number 1.
Erdős number of 1, of course.
You see, Paul Erdős was interested in searching for proofs from THE BOOK. Continue reading My Brain is Open
Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
It was a comfortable, almost a Tom Sawyer existence. It seemed to be a much simpler time. Yes, I was young.
It was the 50s.
Well, actually in this particular case, it was played in the innocent 60’s as if it was the 50’s.
He was like those wise, kind, and forgiving fathers of the 50’s. The time of Ike, who protected and provided for us, hiding the complexities and real dangers of life from us. TV fathers and mothers of the 50s and 60s. Providing and Protecting.
Father Knows Best, My Three Sons, The Donna Reed Show, The Rifleman, Leave it to Beaver, Sky King, and … Continue reading You can never go home, again
