This is another post for my Personal Aesthetic Practice “Childhood Wonder.”
Haven’t we all dreamed of flying at some point or another? I know I have, and I do almost on a daily basis. Unfortunately I was blessed with opposable thumbs and a very large cerebral cortex instead of wings to fly (just kidding, I’m happy to be human). But honestly, I think it’s absolutely incredible that there are animals, like the Canadian Goose, that are born with the ability to fly. Wouldn’t it be amazing to be able to take off and fly away whenever we wished? I envy the birds freedom.
I took these pictures right by the Regina Airport. I always wondered why birds flew in a V formation when I was younger. I would ask my mom but she could never give me an answer. Now I know it’s to cut the wind and that the birds take turns flying in front where it is he most difficult. Isn’t that something? That these animals are able to fly and even in a way that takes up the least amount of energy for the whole group.
This is another picture I captured of an airplane overhead. Even though we were not born with wings, we still managed to find a way to fly. It took us thousands of years to figure it out since our conception, but finally we have reached the freedom that the birds were born with. I think that flight is a truly wondrous thing and often find myself taken up in imagining how wonderful it would to be free like the birds. I wonder how they learned to fly.
Benjamin Ironstand 