A View from Behind the Curtain: Rattling the House

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Rattling the House

As the Osprey passes overhead
The house rattles in reply
A technological wonder that
I wonder how it flies.

3 comments:

W.B. Picklesworth said...: An Osprey is an airplane
Much bigger than the Wright's.
I hope it doesn't fly too low
And get caught on some kites.; January 12, 2011 at 7:25 PM
John said...: Around the pattern at this place
The kites don't really fly
But just the other morning;
While on the Air Force Base
I saw a lonely Eagle
Almost sucked right out of space.; January 12, 2011 at 7:34 PM
W.B. Picklesworth said...: Brilliant!; January 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM

The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic,"  Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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