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346 · Dec 2017
Significance of Progress
Jon Sawyer Dec 2017
It is absolutely remarkable.

To leave the rock that nurtured you
using the gifts that were given to you,
despite all the Earth's attempts to keep us content,
to explore a world away from a world.

For ourselves, and for ourself.
This is a time when calling an astronaut a hero
surpasses all nationality,
and the entire world can be prideful at being a human.
by my wife, Adyson Wright
3 Dec 2017
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/7h6ddd/one_of_my_favourite_photos_from_apollo_17/dqon08s/
303 · Jul 2024
Going
Jon Sawyer Jul 2024
You won't get to where you're going,
if you don't actually go.
2024-07-10 - Action requires action.
230 · Jul 2024
Untitled
Jon Sawyer Jul 2024
The organized systems of the past,
become the random numbers of the future.
2024-07-17 - 3rd Anniversary Poem
209 · Jul 2024
Easter Lily
Jon Sawyer Jul 2024
behold the lily
floating down the river strong
going with the flow
2024-07-17 - 2nd Anniversary Poem
195 · Apr 2024
Tock
Jon Sawyer Apr 2024
An infinity passes,
and it's only been,
seven minutes,
forty two seconds.
7 April 2024 - Why?
189 · Apr 2024
Tick
Jon Sawyer Apr 2024
An infinity passes,
and it's only been,
seven minutes,
forty two seconds.
7 April 2024 - Why?
184 · Sep 2022
Today
Jon Sawyer Sep 2022
A force has awoken me today, and I feel again.
In a drunken stupor, I pour my heart out,
expecting it to be devoured again.

And yet I commit,
the only thing I have to give,
time and time again.

What this brings to me I may never know,
but I expect it to take me and my mind to a lower place,
the voice beckons from behind the screen,
because it means so much to me.

I forsake all that I know,
in the hopes that the fire within me rings true,
to be trodden in the future I never knew,
the voice speaks from behind the screen.

The day's conclusion is never done,
even when sleep takes me on the morrow,
forever it beckons to me untrue,
why I should listen, I never knew.

Friends of old comfort me,
saying, "your voice is heard,"
but after the lights dim and the noise shuts out,
my own mind yells at me "get out."

This rhyme I speak is never meant to be,
a rhyme proper, but we'll see.
Yet it is my voice I speak this day true,
never to be found again, until this day is through.
Silly, I know.
170 · Apr 2024
History
Jon Sawyer Apr 2024
History,
    is more about the time it was written,
    than the time it was written abart.
10 April 2024 - I had a fellow freshman in college, who nicknamed himself as "Sgt. *******", whose father was a history professor at my university, Dr. Cole.

I paid over 400 dollars in tuition for this History 101 class. And I learned the two most important lessons from that class: "History is more about the time it was written than the time it was written about." and "Always carry a pencil."

And now, 20 years later, I think I understand why.

— The End —