I Believe

I Believe I Can Touch the Sky

I sometimes forget. Maybe we all need reminders. My Post-It Note For Optimism: Star Trek

There is a flavor to the Firefly found in the theme song, “you can’t take the sky from me.” It’s got kind of Western touch, cowboys in space. The Original Trek, that was meant to be a western, essentially the wagon trains to other planets. The Next Generation, that was bigger than a Western, with sets that felt more like First Class meets Corporate America.

Over the Rainbow is somewhere between “I believe I can fly” and “I will touch the sky,” found in Enterprise lyrics. The original theme did have lyrics. If you didn’t know there were lyrics, you will find Tenacious D singing them below.

It’s not just the vehicles that take us there. It’s the music, it’s the words we use daily that either soar us or sink us. The stories we tell, it’s okay to have darkness, if there is purpose and utility to remind us that we have a ways to go before the discovery that we always had the power to go home.

Miles to go before we sleep? Will we sleep in the stars on in the Earth? Can I caress the face of God and not want more?