clipped wings

"If you would find freedom, learn above all to discipline your senses and your soul."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

an old man once commented about my having clipped wings.
i think he was referring to some rather well-behaved carefree spirit he saw.

"Discipline is not so much the way by which we are restrained, but the way we channel our energy in a particular direction." - Charles Ringma, Seize the Day

my gratitude to those who did the clipping.
the clipping hurt, but clipped wings sure are easier to handle in flight.

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