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> Go fly a kite: 'We need a wing and some air'

> Written by Jeff Woodard
> June 27, 2009

Discouraged but not defeated, Becky Harrison captured the noontime
scene during today's windless Stillspeaking Kite-Flying Extravaganza
at General Synod 27. "We need a wing and some air."

Harrison, of St. Paul United Church of Christ in Lebanon, Ill., and
several dozen others tried to get ? and keep ? their kites up into the
uncooperative air. Running back and forth on the hilly terrain between
the Grand River and Gerald R. Ford Museum, fliers had little luck.

But their creativity and diversity shone brightly in the form of red
kites, blue kites, yellow kites, rainbow kites, Stillspeaking comma
kites and Barbie kites.

Alas, the only thing really taking off was lunch; several groups of
picnickers gathered under the shade of two large maple trees to eat
and take in the color. But even it was all on the ground too.