Winging in from the past ...

nobody@flickr.com (anetz) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:48:02 -0800

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to be one of Apple's poster people. The others are here, from the set Things which cannot be thrown away.

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COURAGE*

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace,
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.

How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate
For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare
The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the restless day,
And count it fair.

--- Amelia Earhart (1927), via The Sound of Wings: The Biography of Amelia Earhart , by Mary S. Lovell, 1989

* written before her transatlantic flight, June 1928, first printed in "Who is Amelia Earhart?" by Marion Perkins, Survey Graphic Magazine, July 1928, p. 60

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Winging in from the past ...