Friday, June 29, 2018

Clear to Land

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Christopher and Nico at Miami Dolphins Training facility June 9 , 2018


June 29, 2018


Have you ever flown in a plane?  Cruising in a jet at 35,000 feet above the clouds.  Man does it look like heaven from here.  Can you imagine being able to exit the plane and run amongst the cotton ball fields of the sky?  The sight is so wonderful.  It’s heaven and it seems to be within my grasp.

My imagination goes wild.  I pretend I can see my family and friends who have died.  If only I was a simple flight away from seeing them all again.   Maybe it is the isolation way up here in the sky that makes me nostalgic.  Being inside a plane is the most isolated you’ll feel even though you’re crammed in a sardine can of over 100 people or more. 

Flying high in the sky, skimming the clouds, looking at the sun as it lights up the gloom and dreary down below gives me hope that mankind can somehow find beauty in the simplicity of air travel.  Where else can so many people of all-different races, cultures, faith, and differences of opinion tolerate each other for so long?  But once we leave this aircraft and return to our corners of the world all of our opinions are spewed again directly towards each other like daggers as we try to bring each other down. (see what I did there?)

At my seat, in this plane, I have my Coke and Jack.  I take a sip and I wonder what it is like to live up here in these wonderful cumulus clouds.  But then I realize that no matter how hard I try to run from my worries, I can’t elude what is still out there waiting for me because lately the things in the news can make any person depressed.  Just like those clouds that drift along in the jet stream can’t avoid the heavy burden of potentially merging with other clouds that contain torrential rains and thunderstorms. 

But I can ride the storms out and still have a successful landing as long as I can fly above the mess.  When the dark clouds recede they reveal that hope does exist through the blistering weather I may see those beautiful runway lights and begin to land.  

I have zoned out this entire flight.  I smiled and nodded at the flight crew.  Paid for my extra alcoholic drink.  Flipped through the movie section until I got bored.  Worked up my imagination, as I gazed at the clouds, and looked at all my fellow passengers who were doing their own thing, until I felt the plane begin to descend.  Now, we are told to put up our tray tables up, place our seats in the upright position, turn off our electronics, have trash ready as they are getting ready to make one more pass through, and then prepare for our landing.  

I miss my view from 35,000 feet all ready.  Things were so tranquil then.  I’m below the heavenly clouds and cleared to land back on earth.  If I was flying up in the heavens, then where am I landing?







Kid in a candy store. Captain Imperfecto at the Miami Dolphin Training Facility, June 9th, 2018.





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