Airborne – Page 2 – Coriolistic Anachronisms

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I once tasted flight and will forever walk the earth with my eyes turned skywards, for there I have been and there I will always long to return.

Return to Chamonix, Part 2 – Club Alpin Français

August 31, 2019

Airborne, Chamonix

Seated in the garden behind the Chamonix house, a glass in hand and dreamy eyes on the peaks above, I set my thoughts adrift and land in Côte d'Azur, long, long ago. Tucked...

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Return to Chamonix, Part 1 – France Is In The Air

August 10, 2019

Airborne, Chamonix, On the road

The year is 2019. With the exception of a couple of brief, in-airport layovers while flying to or from South Africa with my head in the clouds and thoughts adrift, it has been a...

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The Lightroom Dopamine

January 21, 2019

Airborne, Bits and pieces, Photography

Once upon a time—so long ago that in those days, fresh out of my diapers, I was learning to dive and to fly airplanes—I would set out with my beloved Minolta X-700 SLR and a...

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Two Worlds

January 10, 2019

Airborne, Always, New York, South Africa

High and low, near and far, micro and macro, slow and fast, grounded and aloft, threatened and free, orange and green, these opposites illustrate the complex tangle of our present...

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Inaugural Flights with the Advance Iota 2

October 11, 2018

Airborne, New York

While butterflies flap their fragile wings across the globe and out of sheer chaos, like an artist with raw clay, shape our lives ever so slightly upon each flutter, distant,...

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I Fold, Therefore I Am

September 12, 2018

Airborne, Schtroumpfissime

In moments of sheer panic about the unbearable pressure of being, these days, I am amused by the sense of comfort a neatly folded paraglider gives me. Most everything in our...

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