Those of us who are old enough may remember a time in our youth when someone rudely dismissive of us might have tossed off a comment like, “Oh, go fly a kite!” This was usually meant to get rid of a pesky kid and was not a big deal. Well, times have changed! The old, simple wooden sticks and scraps of cloth that held a kite together are no more. Today’s kites are works of wonder and things of beauty.
Majestic beauties...
In our neighboring kite park every weekend there are majestic beauties filling the skies…sharply winged kites that sweep and buzz with small motors that catch the wind…30-foot, multi-colored octopi whose tentacles trail behind them…tiny, crab-like kites that dance along the grass and never leave the ground. These days there are numerous kite festivals that involve not only huge kites with many parts but also expert flyers who can make multiple kites fly together in masterful symmetry.
Supportive breezes...
Now that there is a real art in kite flying and the flyer can place a kite just where he wants it to go, I have noticed how the wind treats some kites. Small kites without much scope or durability will not fly too high and be caught up in the near-ground breezes and tossed about uncontrollably, especially if the kite flyer is new at the game. But large, soaring kites, handled by experts who can navigate, will make their ways to the calmer updrafts high in the sky. There they rest on the supportive breezes that evenly keep them in place; sometimes they fly so high they are just a dot, barely recognizable.
We can soar...
In some ways, kites sometimes remind me of us. When we can’t get rid of the small stuff, we are batted around by anything that comes along, but when we are serene enough to let ourselves be lifted by the updrafts of Spirit, we can soar into new realms that we may never have known before.
Hmmm….seems kite flying can be more instructive than we thought…
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