21 Winters
Coming-of-Age with a Lesson in Falconery
3 min readNov 19, 2022
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An afternoon in Scotland heralds the approach of a would-be falconer’s 21st winter season. A lesson in falconry highlighting a startling truth: “a bird does not fly of its own free will.”
Why would a creature of wing designed for aero-dynamic lift, resist the call of flight? Would this not be an anomaly of creation itself?