Posted Sunday, April 21, 2019 @ 05:19 PM  

"-I really like soaring. I like the cerebral challenge of defying gravity by using my intellect as the engine and the atmosphere as the fuel."

I also think of thermalling as beeing an intellectual effort, but in my frequent flights with themalling cranes I have often been quite annoyed by the fact that these animals with a brain the size of a walnut have the audacity to outperform me. ME!!!

But as my old father (and former language professor) said when I ventilated my frustration once: "-We humans are so preconditioned to language that we can't really fathom intellect without language...."

I still don't like it, but maybe that's it: my brilliant reasoning puts me further from what I need to do with the thermal...? I wonder what else I overthink.....