Fear of NOT flying.

Let's face it -- that's what we should call it.

Because I have no problem as long as we keep flying.
It's a scenario in which we suddenly stop flying that I worry about.




I've always been a flying chicken, which is a little ironic for the longtime wife of an airline executive. I do it, but I have to fully reconcile myself to my own demise every time I get on a plane . . . which is both ridiculous and exhausting.

But I fly --
because I'm basically an intelligent and reasonable person.
And it gets me where I want to go.



I know, I know . . . air travel is perfectly safe.

An unpleasant ordeal for a claustrophobic such as myself WHO CAN ABSOLUTELY NEVER SEEM TO GET AN AISLE SEAT, but perfectly safe.




I understand the basic principles of physics involved
and I'm familiar with the statistics.



I understand it . . . I just don't BELIEVE it.

There has to be magic at work somewhere because I can hardly lift my own suitcase, let alone the enormous man in the seat next to me. And yet the plane just picks us all up and deposits us wherever we want to go.

And does no one else find it unsettling


that the place you catch your plane is called a TERMINAL??!!

But next week I really want to go to Phoenix for some desert fun with my sister (which is usually accomplished in malls, restaurants, and movie theaters)





so
I
just
gotta'
fly.








We have a little project we've been mulling over, so I may actually make something worthwhile while I'm there, in addition to the extra fat I make and have to carry home with me.

I also hope to meet a blog friend for guacamole
(green icing on my prickly cactus cake of fun!)

And speaking of flying,
look what built a nest in my studio trees this week:





I'm having lots of fun with these little birdies.
I just hope they haven't left so many
"holes in the sky" with their music



that my airplane falls into one of them.

I'm not even going to tell you when I'll return
because it will be in SEPTEMBER
and I can't bear to say the "S" word . . .

well, since I've already said it,

Small Works will return September 8.

(No worries -- I'll be back.)