For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.