As I got home this morning my wife was watching something on TV. It looked like a shot of a meteor streaking across the sky. I didn't think much of it until she told me it was a NASA shuttle breaking up.
To say I was stunned would be the understatment of the year. All I can say is our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the crew and I hope they understand that their loss was not in vain. That the struggle to explore and work in space is frought with danger. That the only way to pave smooth that road is to boldly go forward to overcome the challenges that lay there.
To close, I heard the words of the old Simon and Garfunkle song "Homeward Bound" echoing in my head while I watched the news conference from NASA. To have gove so far. To have "touched the face of God." And then to perish while so close to home. Homeward bound.
Tonight I'll sing my songs again,
I'll play the game and pretend.
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
Silently for me.
Aloha
