{Friday Writings for Randos - A weekly post that features pieces from
other writers that touch some facet of the Randonneuring experience,
even if that was not the author's intent. It's stuff that's best read
out loud - slowly.} This week it's. . .
Flight
by Louis Jenkins
Past mishaps might be attributed to an incomplete understanding of the laws of aerodynamics or perhaps even to a more basic failure of the imagination, but were to be expected.
Remember, this is solo flight unencumbered by bicycle parts, aluminum and nylon or even feathers. A tour de force, really.
There's a lot of running and flapping involved and as you get older and heavier, a lot more huffing and puffing. But on a bright day like today with a strong headwind blowing up from the sea, when having slipped the Surly bonds of common sense and knowing she is watching, waiting in breathless anticipation, you send yourself hurlting down the long, green slope to the cliffs, who knows?
You just might make it.
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