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Trust Love, Overcome Fear, Fly Into The Unknown
Parasailing Perspective: Flying High Into A Life Lesson
3 min readFeb 18, 2022
A crew member adjusts my life jacket
my heart struggles to b-r-e-a-t-h-e
trust you are safe
tethered, forever connected.
airborne
ascending 600 feet
heavenly, sunset panoramic hues
u-p-l-i-f-t-i-n-g
soaring releases grief’s noose
my heart load
crumbles
spirals
to
the
ground.
fly high
“in the air on a parasail
it’s easy to forget
about the world below
with all the beauty of the sky.”
departure
When I take flight,
it is
eight months
after
a medical misdiagnosis took Dad—way too soon.