Early 1960's: 10:00 pm; outsidelooking up at the stars; holding on to a telescope; amazed at the stars and searching for the planets; mom calls him inside to go to bed, he doesn't want to because he is wanting to go to space- he dreams for it- longs for it:
"There's a mystery about the darkness," Jack pretended to radio in to mission control.
Being poor was a part of life for Jack and his mother Judy. She worked two jobs- a waiter at the local truck stop in Houston and as a nurse by night. Jack simply did not fit in with the other kids in the school district because it was mostly middle class families. However, he did dream bigger than almost any other kid out there. And at the height of the space race, he was entangled in the mystery that presented itself during the stillness of the spring nights. There was no end to space, there was no limit, and there was nobody out there that could tell him he couldn't, and each night from dusk until his mother got home he laid on his back and imagined a life with no limits.
Jack wondered what his life might be life if he was like the other kids at his school. But wondering wasnt enough to take away his dreams, and he would work hard until he got there.
Today, Jack is still not middle class. He is what you might call, upper class.
"There's a mystery about the darkness," Jack pretended to radio in to mission control.
Being poor was a part of life for Jack and his mother Judy. She worked two jobs- a waiter at the local truck stop in Houston and as a nurse by night. Jack simply did not fit in with the other kids in the school district because it was mostly middle class families. However, he did dream bigger than almost any other kid out there. And at the height of the space race, he was entangled in the mystery that presented itself during the stillness of the spring nights. There was no end to space, there was no limit, and there was nobody out there that could tell him he couldn't, and each night from dusk until his mother got home he laid on his back and imagined a life with no limits.
Jack wondered what his life might be life if he was like the other kids at his school. But wondering wasnt enough to take away his dreams, and he would work hard until he got there.
Today, Jack is still not middle class. He is what you might call, upper class.