Free Flight

The flightless ones engage in all sorts of painful-appearing contortions to maintain fitness. I see them running, biking, and power-walking on the front street. The oldest one here used to do "push-ups" and "sit-ups"--an amusing sight. Luckily, she doesn't understand "LOL" in keetspeak. Lifting weights and doing aerobics are also said to be popular, often in places called "fitness centers". They even get into the water, and propel themselves through it--"swimming", they call it. We don't swim (When very young, Jary inadvertantly landed in a toilet and nearly drowned), although we like to take baths. Our exercise of choice is flying. We like to do it in formation, and it is even more fun if we skim over the heads of the flightless ones, creating a little lift of the hair as we pass. We like to land on the tops of door frames and curtain rods--tantalizingly out of reach! I think that wing clipping should never be allowed--although some humans defend it for safety reasons. How would you like someone to cut your legs off at the knee and say, "It's safer if you don't walk around. Sit in the house all day, and watch TV."?