Take Off and Landing

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ~Victor Hugo

     Wings flutter and feathers fly while a cacophony of squawking ensues. The art of flight is astonishing and each bird has his own technique. They take off and hover on the breeze like children's kites, and then they return sometimes gracefully to the rocks below. 
     Still...the design is uniquely their own. Again a few take off and rise into the air sailing with the wind. Later they return landing noisily back among the group. 
    Chatter and squawk...chatter and squawk...
    A few more take off and land. A ritual that repeats for hours until finally the entire group takes off in an orchestrated ascent and the cadence of their flapping wings fill the air. ஐ

What each must seek in his life never was 

on land or sea. It is something out of his own

unique potentiality for experience,

something that never has been and never could

have been experienced by anyone else. ~Joseph Campbell