74. Audio Recording of "The Flying of Falcons" - a prelude to the reading with Ed Pitcher

The Fat Bird, Ugly Dog Podcast - A podcast by Al Franke - Mondays

Ed Pitcher joins me to announce that he and Ricardo Velarde have given me permission to read and publish "The Flying of Falcons" as part of the Fat Bird, Ugly Dog Podcast. We begin the episode discussing Ed's use of mantras to guide the way he develops and flies his birds. We then focus of two mantras that Ed used in the book, and now regrets to some degree - the first is “being touched by the Angel of Death”, a metaphor he used in the chapter about a female prairie falcon called “Amos"...