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Flying Free....  

warmandsexy52 71M
4736 posts
4/29/2007 4:42 am

Last Read:
5/20/2007 2:40 am

Flying Free....

I still
find it hard
to believe
that I can fly
lured by elementals
I am drawn to
part with earth
buoyant
and rising
feeling the air
my wing
more than fabric
and cord
but an organ
of flight
whose pulse
and rhythm
feign flesh itself
intimately
making
thinnest air
so
substantial
she almost
talks
with me

© warmandsexy52 2007


Because a paraglider canopy has some resemblance to a<b> parachute </font></b>I am often asked if I also skydive or base jump, and I have little intention in doing either. Skydiving in its various forms involves a relatively short and extremely exciting free-fall, followed by the canopy of the<b> parachute </font></b>opening. It’s unusual to be in the air for more than five minutes or so, but you get the thrill of an intense adrenaline rush.

I love the French term vol libre ‒ free flight ‒ for hang-gliding and paragliding. The beauty of French is that words can take a quality all of their own, that enhance what is being said. Free flyers enjoy what they do, in my experience, because they are drawn into a connectedness with the sky as a realm, and because for the most part it is unpowered, a flight is a relationship with the wind, the terrain, rising air currents, weather systems ……. just that whole dimension in space. When you fly the experience is total and all your flight experience to that moment informs how you act and what you do. There are no words that pass through your mind ……. simply being.

And it binds the whole free-flying community together. Whatever their skill or experience level, everyone has broken and desires to break the bounds of earth. And through that comes a camaradie that only emerges when you share something you know to be unique and remarkable.

Of course it’s a hobby, a sport ‒ a way of spending a day in the great outdoors. But it is a passion, and I am sure that since that moment five years ago, when my feet first left the ground on a thirty second flight, I’ve somehow changed irreversibly.

And I guess that makes it special.



warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
5/20/2007 2:40 am

    Quoting  :

That will be a very special moment, dearest heavenly. Coming in to land and knowing you're there.

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
5/8/2007 1:08 pm

    Quoting spunky11961:
    Watching the Good Year blimp here today and thought of you.... kinda would like to try at least the glider or a ride in a blimp.....

    ~Jeff
Goodyear blimp, Jeff? - I've been trying to lose weight!!!

~warm


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
5/8/2007 1:02 pm

    Quoting rm_goddess1946:
    Wonderful,wonderful,wonderful,wonderful,wonderful!
    Goddess Bless the Wind!
Goddess ride with the wind ........

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
5/7/2007 5:48 pm

    Quoting shyvixen1962:
    ~ Your passion speaks volumes and I sense a feeling of lightness and peace ... it sounds wonderful ~

    peace and healing
    shy
The sky is such a fickle mistress, never exactly the same as the last time you flew, so each flight is a kind of communion with nature herself, and in that there is a kind of mystical quality. Even how light you are can change upon a breath of air. Upon that are passions born.

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
5/7/2007 12:02 pm

    Quoting rm_goddess1946:
    Happy May Day

    "Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors,there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Happy belated May Day dear goddess.

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
5/7/2007 11:04 am

    Quoting  :

That's living at the edge MzHuny ...... just go there once in a while when life might seem a little ordinary ..... and it resets the balance ......

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
5/7/2007 8:32 am

    Quoting  :

Many a long distance record has involved a wet flying suit. I always make a point of peeing before I launch. It's one of those things that brings you back to ground ..... that and frozen fingers in winter.

~warm


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
5/6/2007 11:30 am

    Quoting FLYonTHEwall45:

    I can imagine how special it is ... I try to imagine being up there with you and I feel a lump in my throat and other than holding on tightly, I feel unafraid and I think I would like it.

    I agree about those others things, Im sure I would pass....

    Hugs my sweet friend
The reassuring presence of a huge canopy overhead and the feeling of buoyancy in the sky do much to alleviate fear.

Such a nice dream, dear Fly - to share the experience.

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
5/6/2007 11:25 am

    Quoting  :

Awwwwww! Thank you. That's a lovely sentiment. The sky's free. Trouble is the ground isn't always so.

warm xx


rm_goddess1946 113F
13513 posts
5/4/2007 7:43 am

Wonderful,wonderful,wonderful,wonderful,wonderful!
Goddess Bless the Wind!


Just a little food for thought.............
If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you...
{=}


rm_goddess1946 113F
13513 posts
5/1/2007 7:04 am

Happy May Day

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors,there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." ~Rainer Maria Rilke


Just a little food for thought.............
If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you...
{=}


FLYonTHEwall45 62F

4/30/2007 6:46 pm


I can imagine how special it is ... I try to imagine being up there with you and I feel a lump in my throat and other than holding on tightly, I feel unafraid and I think I would like it.

I agree about those others things, Im sure I would pass....

Hugs my sweet friend




Run your fingers through my soul. For once, feel what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive. Look, experience, examine, and just once understand.

Author Unknown


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
4/30/2007 11:29 am

    Quoting spunky11961:
    At least with para gliding ya have a semblance of wings, jumping seems to similar to suicide to me.....I've been watching the gliders(soar planes) high in the sky here... such a sight to see...~sigh~

    ~Jeff
Foot-launched flight is so different from being inside an aircraft and I've never thought it a substitute. Having said that I would love to have a go at fixed wing gliders because they are such efficient flying machines. Maybe if I get too old and my limbs can no longer chance the odd heavy landing I'll learn to glide inside a cabin. Fellow paraglider pilots have had these other air experiences, but it is the simplicity of the paraglider is what makes it so special. I've even known an F15 pilot prefer to paraglide, because it is so raw, so basic and so close to being a human who can fly like a bird, rather than travel through the air in a machine.

~warm


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
4/30/2007 5:08 am

    Quoting moonfire2u:
    and maybe, in part, that is what makes you so special...

    kind thoughts,
    Moonfire
Awwww moonfire sweetie, that's so touching. Thank you.

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
4/30/2007 4:57 am

    Quoting  :

And once bitten dear Romy, totally smitten!

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
4/30/2007 4:55 am

    Quoting SweetDarlinAngel:
    ties anchors to your ankles ... can't you just stay here on the ground with my for a change? I love spending time with you on solid ground.
Awwwwww! That's lovely! Will you be getting that medicine man to do a rain dance .......?

warm xx


I'm sure I told you that when I launched off South Mountain a medicine man had laid out stones and feathers at the take-off point to wish us safe passage ...... that was really touching!


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
4/30/2007 4:47 am

    Quoting rm_goddess1946:
    Can we do this when I get to the other side of the pond???
    Please????
If the wind is right, for sure dear goddess.

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
4/30/2007 4:46 am

    Quoting rm_loveslilies:
    I'm so glad you have something to bring such joy and inspiration in your life Warm.
Thank you dear loves. Boldly going forward 'cause I can't find the reverse sounds a bit like launching!

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
4/30/2007 4:42 am

    Quoting Sulabula:
    It sounds like an amazing experience
It truly is, dear Sula. There must be flyers in Ireland.......

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
4/30/2007 3:03 am

    Quoting wickedeasy:
    flying......as a child that was one of my fondest dreams....and in my dreams, i could.

    it sounds very spiritual to me warm....

    we
It has a real spiritual dimension to it, we. Especially flying somewhere really remote - there is a real awesomeness about it and a sense of what a small place in the grand scheme of things we occupy.

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
4/30/2007 2:59 am

    Quoting  :

I think there are layers to a passion for free flight. Simply getting airborne is not too difficult - a few hours' training will give you the basics to launch and land safely, but then the whole of free flight opens itself up to you and you find that actually to fly well you are going to spend the rest of your life learning. Beyond the shelter of the flying school and an instructor's supervision you learn that the dangers they tell you about are real, and the more experienced you become, the more you become really aware of them, particularly as you push at the boundaries (fools rush in where angels fear to tread). Perhaps more than that you learn how subtle free flight is. Getting lift requires quite a sophisticated understanding of weather, terrain and sky and how they react. There are subtleties of control, so you get the greatest efficiency and there is the capricious unpredictability of air. So every flight is going to be better than the last - you'll go higher, travel further, or stay in the air longer.

You need to be reasonably fit, but not excessively so. You'd enjoy it, I'm sure.

~warm


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
4/30/2007 2:44 am

    Quoting  :

I feel as though I found a real treasure of a life experience. Leonardo da Vinci once wrote:

He who has tasted flight
Will walk the earth
With his eyes turned to the sky.
For there he has been
And there he longs to return.


It makes me think he might have actually flown that hang-glider he designed (a replica of which did fly recently!).

I have other things I would like to say, but I will leave it at this for now...

Any time ....... no worries, dear evy.

Hugs

warm xx


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
4/30/2007 2:33 am

    Quoting  :

That's how I began, by a wish like that. There are many wishes that reality somehow falls short of, but on this occasion even my simplest first flight matched long held dreams and I never looked back.

warm xx


SweetDarlinAngel 46F
2995 posts
4/29/2007 11:06 pm

ties anchors to your ankles ... can't you just stay here on the ground with my for a change? I love spending time with you on solid ground.

~Angel


rm_goddess1946 113F
13513 posts
4/29/2007 6:43 pm

Can we do this when I get to the other side of the pond???
Please????

Just a little food for thought.............
If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you...
{=}


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