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Kites
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How to Hold the Wind Kites are objects that depend entirely on something outside of themselves to fly. You can build a kite, give it structure, choose its materials, and put it into the air, but you cannot determine the wind. You can only pay attention to it. Flying becomes an ongoing negotiation between holding on and letting go, between intention and response. Over time, the kite became a way of thinking about how we exist in relationship with forces we cannot control.

I have been thinking about this relationship beyond kite flying: in creativity, technology, relationships, ambition, and the uncertainty of the future. So much of life is shaped by things already in motion, forces we did not create and cannot fully understand or possess. Our instinct is often to resist them, predict them, or bring them under our control. But a kite suggests another possibility. We can learn to read them. We can build structures capable of responding to them. We can create conditions and remain open to what emerges.

There is agency in this surrender. To accept that we cannot determine an outcome does not mean that we have no part in shaping it. We still choose what to build, what to hold onto, when to pull, and when to release.