There is this real fascination for kites that we all have. Not only when we are children but it stays within us during our entire  lifetime. Same kind of fascination we have for Stars. In general for the notion of Rising and reaching above - for the sense of flying towards larger-purer spaces where we become ourselves more elevated beings.  Enjoy the poem: "The boy takes paper, cuts it and makes a kite, and flies it in the sky. Talking with his friends, he still keeps his attention on the kite string. My mind has been pierced…