Now, All That I Feared Would Happen

My Aging Body Transmits An Ageless Life Stream. Molecular And Atomic Replacement Change Life's Composition. Molecules Take Part In Structure And In Training, Countless Trillions Of Them. After My Death, The Molecules Of My Being Will Return To The Earth And Sky. They Came From The Stars. I Am Of The Stars.

At First You Can Stand The Spotlight In Your Eyes. Then It Blinds You. Others Can See You, But You Cannot See Them.

Wind, Weather, Power, Load - Gradually These Elements Stop Churning In My Mind. It's Less A Decision Of Logic Than A Feeling, The Kind Of Feeling That Comes When You Gauge The Distance To Be Jumped Between Two Stones Across A Brook. Something Within You Disengages Itself From Your Body And Travels Ahead With Your Vision To Make The Test. You Can Feel It Try The Jump As You Stand Looking. Then Uncertainty Gives Way To The Conviction That It Can Or Can't Be Done.

Time Is An Abstraction Which, On Earth, Exists Only For The Human Brain It Has Evolved.

It Was That Quality That Led Me Into Aviation In The First Place — It Was A Love Of The Air And Sky And Flying, The Lure Of Adventure, The Appreciation Of Beauty. It Lay Beyond The Descriptive Words Of Man — Where Immortality Is Touched Through Danger, Where Life Meets Death On Equal Plane; Where Man Is More Than Man, And Existence Both Supreme And Valueless At The Same Instant.