This seems worth sharing. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:31:32 -0000 From: "drstopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [clearspringzendo] Columbia tragedy
Om gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.... Feb. 2, 2003 -- NPR received many letters from listeners the day Columbia crashed. 'Weekend Edition Sunday' host Liane Hansen read the following letter, from 16-year-old Jessi Hall, in Jamestown, Ohio, on air. The teen-ager wrote: This morning (Saturday) I was on my way back home from a music competition and mom turned the radio to NPR. We heard the middle of an interview with someone who had seen something tragic, but neither he nor the interviewer said anything pertaining to what it was until the interview was over. When we heard it was the shuttle Columbia, it was like a blow. There was nothing to say. Somehow it seemed too distant from us that it couldn't have happened, but it had. When we got home, I sat down at the computer and wrote a poem about my experience and reaction to the news. I frequently write poetry as a way to vent, and a way to express my feelings. I feel there is no other way to tell the families of their loved ones who were lost in the tragedy how deeply all Americans have been shaken. Jessi Hall's poem: sitting in the car talking to my mom i heard the man say 'debris' i thought of the Columbia but I wanted to be sure he said the trail was purple and too wide to be one piece we hung on his every word it seemed to me an eternity had passed before we knew that the crew of seven on their way back to family had been left in space amidst the stars to sleep oh starry skies will keep them safe but what of us down here tears are shed for those who stay in orbit 'round reality oh starry skies will hide the fear of all there is to come grief is felt for those who say "you see that bright star winking at us now, that bright star is my dad" "you see that star that sped along the sea, that shooting star is my mom" _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
