I'm currently supposed to be doing my Lesson plan for my third grade class that I'm sitting in for my clinical. But I'm tired and I have that itchy trapped feeling under my skin that I get sometimes. It's really only solved by running which gets my endorphins up, or going really really fast. Since I can't drive, and my roommate won't let me run Maybe some self reflection will help. so far not so much. Which just means I'm going to get twitchy and restless and I'll have to sit outside and stare at the sky because that helps too, I love the sky. this happens more often than I'd like. It makes me really wish I could fly, maybe my next mission in life will be flying lessons. I love flying, I'm weird but I love getting on long flights because I'm up in the sky and I can't explain it but it makes me happy. So I figure it would be good for me to learn to fly. I've finally thought of a good tattoo for me:
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings" ~John Gillespie Magee, Jr
Which, by the way, is a beautiful poem. Check it out. The message is beautiful but I have to decide between just the first part or both lines. I found this picture, which is beautiful but huge. Mine would be smaller and not on my back, but still much the same Idea
Hmm still not working, well I should get back to my work regardless. Deep breath julie.
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . ." -- Antoine de St-Exupery
"Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes." -- Charles A. Lindbergh, 'Autobiography of Values.'
"Man must rise above the Earth -- to the top of the atmosphere and beyond -- for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." -- Socrates
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." -- Leonardo da Vinci
"More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination." -- Wilbur Wright
Impressions of a Pilot
Flight is freedom in its purest form,
To dance with the clouds which follow a storm;
To roll and glide, to wheel and spin,
To feel the joy that swells within;
To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,
And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;
Then back to earth at the end of a day,
Released from the tensions which melted away.
Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest night;
Spare me your pity and shrug off the pain,
Secure in the knowledge that I'd do it again;
For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know,
I was born to fly.
— Gary Claud Stokor
