I remember when Sputnik was launched being terrified of it. I was 6 years old. All I knew was that it was Russian, and Russia was the reason I had to duck and cover under my desk at school and get my clothes all dirty!
I was relieved when the USA launched Explorer 1. The newspaper would print a schedule of when it would be visible flying overhead.
If you do, I forgot to include that at the end, you visualize gradually pulling the roots back up into your body and the branches back down through your crown.
Maybe the programmers missed graduating “come loud” (you know what I mean) by 1/100 of a decimal point so they made sure nobody could ever claim that distinction in the comments section of GoComics. (I know the pain. I graduated with a 3.49 average. I blame it on the prof who lowered my A in creative writing to a B because I missed class the night of my dad’s funeral, his logic being that since my dad’s funeral was in the morning and it was a night class there was no reason for me to have missed. Obviously it was not my only B, but it was the only one I did not deserve. And for the record, I did not attend the pompous poet professor’s funeral when the time came.
I hear it to the tune of the short hymn that we used to sing at the end of every concert when I was in the Girls Glee Club. Since it was a song and not a prayer, we got away with it. There are several renditions of it on You Tube. My favorite ends with watch?v=Nxn6tmVSljU after the usual teepee beginning.
♬The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord lift His countenance upon you, And give you peace, and give you peace, The Lord make His face to shine upon you, And be gracious unto you, be gracious, The Lord be gracious, gracious unto you. Amen! (repeated many times) ♬
Jasper would only respond to his name if I called it twice. The first time the two syllables had to be the same pitch, usually ♩G ♩G (below middle C) then the second time the first syllable had to jump an octave to the G above middle see and be held for 4 beats with the last syllable coming down two notes to ♩E above middle C.
I remember when Sputnik was launched being terrified of it. I was 6 years old. All I knew was that it was Russian, and Russia was the reason I had to duck and cover under my desk at school and get my clothes all dirty!
I was relieved when the USA launched Explorer 1. The newspaper would print a schedule of when it would be visible flying overhead.