I was busy at my desk, working away at something as usual, when my Mother walked in and said, “Come outside with us (Ethan and Madeline) and fly a kite.”
I looked at her and said, “Are you serious?”
A couple of minutes later I was outside flying a kite in the middle of the day with my work phone in my pocket. This is just one of the advantages/disadvantages of owning your own business. I’ve got to admit that it was fun. I haven’t flown a kite since I don’t remember when and I was amazed at how much fun I had and how excited my children were. Here are some links to some pictures.
In this pic I look so serious, but I was just getting the kite prepared for liftoff.
In this pic we’re just about ready to get it going.
I began to think about all the things associated with kite flying…
1. Charlie Brown: How can you not love Charlie Brown flying his kite and it getting tangled up in a tree immediately or the kite attacking him? That’s a metaphor for his entire life. Fun = Misery
2. Ben Franklin: I so wanted a key attached to that kite when I was flying it. Is that some kind of death wish? Only if you use a steel cable instead of string.
3. “Let’s Go Fly a Kite”: The song. That annoying song.
4. “Go fly a kite!”: As insults go, that’s a really lame insult. You’re actually telling the person to go out, relax, enjoy life a little, take things easy, breathe some fresh air, get some sunshine. It’s like saying, “Why don’t you go find a million dollars and retire on a tropical island!” in an angry voice. Lame.
The strangest thing about kite flying is that I did the same thing I did when I was little: the string and holder kept spinning too fast and burning my hands. See, I can make anything miserable just like Chuck.
What you don’t see pictured is a huge dragon kite that my children got a couple of weeks back. There was also a giant snake kite. The funny thing is that these kites scared my three-year-old. And me as well.
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