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| Togetherness St. Thomas, ON July 2009 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
One of my coping mechanisms is creativity. I'll either immerse myself in creating something new - by writing a piece, taking out the camera, etc. - or I'll dig into something I wrote or shot weeks, months, or even years ago and allow my eyes and brain to linger over it for a bit.
I went back to 2009 for this one, a day in the sun at an air show with friends and our combined brood of kids who were a lot smaller then. When F-16s turned the sky above us into an overwhelmingly noisy, heat-slashed playground.
I share this today because this was the kind of day where I thought it would be lovely to strap in, shove the throttles forward and put it all behind me for a bit. Yes, I have a pink bicycle, but it can't come close to 29,500 pounds of thrust in full afterburner. Come to think of it, my bike doesn't even have an afterburner, and my top speed under pedal power is decidedly slower than Mach 2.
Sometimes, a little bit of controlled violence is called for, even if it's only in the imagination.
In the hazy skies over a nearby airport 11 years ago, I got to drink in the reality, if only for a short while. Thankfully the memories endure. Thankfully we can always draw comfort from them.
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