If you can mute your TV when negative political ads come on and refrain from frightening news stories, take time to fly above all these controversies by reading positive items like the following about soaring through the clouds in flight: High Flight by John Gillespie in 1947 ”Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace.
