how to fly a space kayak…
My Dear Readers,
Shortly after publishing my instructions on how to build your very own space kayak…
I was deluged with requests for instruction on how to fly those little aircrafts…
This is a bit more tricky, but I will do my best to explain it.
Hmmmm. Hmmmmm. Well…it is a little hard to explain. There is a special poem we use on our planet of Little Wave, and that poem is essential to flying. It is really hard to translate into most of the Earth’s languages…although, of course, the bird language has something quite similar…
Well, let me try.
Once, shortly after I first came to Earth, I saw a beautiful program on Public Television. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the name of the program or who made it, because it was quite a while ago. My friend Tabasco explained to me at length about plagerism & copyright fringes & other such things. (This was something new to me, because on our planet, we freely share all good ideas, & we simply put our really bad ideas into something like a compost bin, so they can decompose into something nourishing & useful after some time has passed.) So…
I am very sorry I cannot give credit to the creators of this program I am about to tell you about, but maybe someone out there will recognize it & please let me know!
But it is essential that I tell you about it, in order to share the secret of flying!
If I remember correctly, the show starts out with a storyteller from Africa, telling the ancient stories of Anansi the Spider…later on in time, the same storyteller travels to the United States, during the time of slavery, and he sees a young woman with a downcast face, working with sadness & misery in a field. He says to her these words, “Listen My Daughter…
The young woman looks up at him, & hope begins to dawn in her eyes. Slowly she straightens herself, & spreads her arms up, rising up into the sky, flying to her freedom…
…although I am not able to quite translate our ancient flying poetry into your language, those words above are the closest I have heard here on Earth…
I hope that helps a little bit!
Now, just start out with tiny flights, & you will see what works well & soon be able to go a bit farther! That is how all the young clay balls start out, when they first begin to fly!
love,
Clay Ball
