Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.
Since I spent time as a young child seriously trying to fly and now relish the infrequent flying dream, this appeals to me immediately and strongly on a gut level. On a sane, mature, adult level, I too, can say there’s a 100% chance…okay, maybe a 90% chance I won’t be doing it anytime soon. But gosh, those suits sure look cool!
Well, well.
I’m guessing that you could go pretty stinkin’ fast with those squirrel suits; the helmets look pretty trivial when you see these folks just about grazing the sheer cliffs (which are evidently not made of candy and fluff). Bottom line is that they do have a parachute, which is nice. The hard part looks like the very start, getting away from the rocks; oopsie at that point, and the chute probably won’t help, unless it inflates into a gigantic red couch which lulls you to sleep as you bounce languidly down the slope in its 200-foot-wide couchy embrace. I’ve made myself sleepy. On the other hand, it does look like fu fu fu funnnn….
WOW that was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Imagine the feeling of freedom they must have while flying… AWESOME. However I don’t think I will be doing that on my 50th either!!! But it is soooo wonderful to watch.
I too, like some others here, tried hard, as a child to fly, making elaborate wings from sheets and sticks and stuff. But this…now, if I was 20 years younger, maybe, I’d get into it.
Are you SURE you don’t want to try this for the big event? It looks pretty fab….
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In 2005, Patti Digh started her blog, 37days, following the death of her stepfather who died just 37 days after being diagnosed with cancer. Six books about living mindfully followed. And there’s more to come.