Ray Bradbury

We are more than we would have been without you.   You saw so much farther than we could.  Instead of scolding us for being short-sighted, you gave us lenses and maps and velocity.

And the words.

From you we learned the word Martian did not mean little green men but possibility. Our collective desire to claim you as a kindred spirit must have seem crushing at times, yet you never gave half measures. When we gathered up ourselves as the disheveled wandering stars that we are and brought them to your pages, we found a benevolent mirror.

My tears, of sorrow, of loss, are also prompted by eternal wonder for the magic that you were, you are and always will be.   My heart joins those of all who love you.

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