I saw someone flying a parafoil kite on the beach the other day. I think I need to get more in touch with the sky, by almost-literally "touching the sky" with a kite. My son had a parafoil kite... it might still be around here someplace...
[Story: In junior high school, my son wanted to do a science project that involved lifting things up a hundred feet or so, and a small parafoil kite was cheaper than a helium balloon. We went to the beach to do some test runs with the kite, but it turned out to be a lot windier than we expected. The kite was pulling so strongly that the string was humming in the wind like an Aeolian harp, and it nearly pulled my son off his feet. I grabbed the line and started pulling it in hand-over-hand. My son was frightened, and running around in little circles, but I was laughing with the sheer exu/altation of the wind! I had to wrestle the kite down into the wind-shadow of the car and step on it to deflate it, before I could fold it up and put it away. I was still laughing, all the way home. I think this may be what Falcon is telling me I need.]
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Date: 2011-09-20 10:23 pm (UTC)[Story: In junior high school, my son wanted to do a science project that involved lifting things up a hundred feet or so, and a small parafoil kite was cheaper than a helium balloon. We went to the beach to do some test runs with the kite, but it turned out to be a lot windier than we expected. The kite was pulling so strongly that the string was humming in the wind like an Aeolian harp, and it nearly pulled my son off his feet. I grabbed the line and started pulling it in hand-over-hand. My son was frightened, and running around in little circles, but I was laughing with the sheer exu/altation of the wind! I had to wrestle the kite down into the wind-shadow of the car and step on it to deflate it, before I could fold it up and put it away. I was still laughing, all the way home. I think this may be what Falcon is telling me I need.]