HEY, SKY DANCER,
I KNOW YOU LOVE FLYING! I GOTTA TELL YOU A STORY.
BACK IN’01, I’M ON A FLIGHT TO FL SITING BY A WINDOW SEAT LOOKING OUT AT A CARPET OF BRIGHT WHITE COTTON BALLS BELOW ME STRETCHING OUT TO THE HORIZON. A KID ON MY RIGHT IN HIS LATE TEENS SAYS, “WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?”
“THE CLOUDS BELOW US.”
“WHY?”
“I WAS JUST THINKING THAT LESS THAN A CENTURY AGO, NO HUMAN BEING HAD EVER SEEN SUCH A SIGHT.”
HE SAID, “YEAH, SO?”
I FELT LIKE GRABBING HIS SKINNY LITTLE NECK AND POPPING HIS HEAD OFF! A COMPLETE LACK OF WONDER, AWE, SOUL.
YOU GET TO EXPERIENCE THAT AWE AND WONDER PRACTICALLY EVERY WEEK! I ENVY YOU!...AND YOU GET PAID FOR IT!!! HOW GREAT IS THAT?!?!?!
LOL Good one!
PS: From the founding of our country to the time we landed on the moon was only 193 years - or - from the Wright Bros. first flight to the moon landing was only 66 years also less than a hundred years from the ending of the War of Secession.