by Michelee Cabot | Dec 16, 2020 | Flying, Uncategorized
GOD: FOOLS AND DRUNKS – the saying goes that He looks after them. In the midst of this giant pandemic isolation, I sit with my wings now folded, watching the sky’s constantly changing cloudscapes – and reflect. The time came last year for this eagle to go to roost. ...
by Michelee Cabot | Nov 8, 2017 | Flying, The World As It Was
BALLOONS, the Hot Air Kind “Up, up and away, in my beautiful balloon…” The Fifth Dimension musically wooed us to soar high and wide. Marilyn McCoo’s crooning pulled our hearts into the sky, triggering a yearning to throw off gravity, that force pithily called...
by Michelee Cabot | Aug 18, 2017 | Flying, The World As It Was
It was my first time to drop a jumper from my plane. To chunky balding Andy, a man with many jumps “under his belt” as they say, I sang out a hopeful “Adios, amigo”’ as he traded a Perfectly Good Airplane for leg-flailing insecurity, hurtling earthward through...
by Michelee Cabot | Jun 8, 2017 | Flying
As I look out on the distant high Sierra Mt. Alamos, foreground framed by masses of hot pink bougainvillea, bright blue swimming pool a trap for drifting blossoms, I wonder how a wintery thought could possibly bubble up in my head. It’s climbing to 100f degrees out...
by Michelee Cabot | May 25, 2017 | Flying
THE DALHART INCIDENT Flying the wide span of west Texas plains can shake your confidence. Not from the endless empty square miles of land (embellished only by the odd cattle tank and small shed – where are people?) but from the fast, frightening growth of towering...
by Michelee Cabot | May 16, 2017 | Flying
FLYING THE OMEGA As I peer out at sturdy fan palms and frilly guasimas thrashing in the desert winds, their branches hanging onto trunks for dear life, I’m plenty glad to be on the ground. A few minutes ago a fierce gust blew a mess of doves right out of where they...
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