{"id":9821,"date":"2021-09-19T10:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindacollison.com\/?p=9821"},"modified":"2021-09-19T12:03:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T19:03:19","slug":"altitude-is-your-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/altitude-is-your-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Altitude is your friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1981 I made my first skydive, a static line deployment at Skies West, a sport skydiving center in Loveland, Colorado. That experience radically changed my life in ways I am still exploring, through writing a memoir, and making a documentary film.<\/p>\n

This photograph of a no-contact kiss at 9000 feet above the ground was taken (as I recall) by Bill Jackson or Alfonz Trone (RIP) about 1991 or 92, not long after the man asked me to marry him.<\/p>\n

Gaining altitude brings a new perspective, and in letting go we learn to fly, like baby birds falling from the nest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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