A friend responds to the last entry: "... skydiving -- you know, where first you fall and then you float, never breaking a sweat."
Never?
I would:
1) just before I jumped out.
2) as I jumped out.
3) as I fell, wondering if I got the defective parachute.
4) as I fell, wondering if I got the defective parachute-opening-thingie.
5) as I fell, wondering if I still remembered how to use parachute-opening-thingie.
6) as I fell, realizing that I had lost count.
7) as the chute opened, from the terror of suddenly ascending when I thought I was dead.
8) as I floated over a lovely but VAST, UNBROKEN expanse of tree canopy.
9) as I floated over a lovely but vast, unbroken expanse of tree canopy, wondering which,if any, part of me would remain unbroken.
10) as I landed.
11) as I sat, alone, in a lovely but vast and oddly silent forest, wondering:
11b) "NOW WHAT?"
11c) "Just *how* high is this branch?"
Sylvia
Posted by Deck at July 20, 2006 10:36 AM