When I began to think of Flying and Freedom the first person to come to my mind was of course The Pan himself.  To live the life of Peter Pan has been the fancy of many a child.  Just think… never growing old, having a fairy for a best friend, having amazing adventures every day, fighting off Pirates and any other wrong doers who threaten Never-Neverland. And oh yes, how could I forget, Peter’s most memorable and amazing attribute.  Peter Pan can fly.

I read a book a couple years ago called Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Berry and Ridley Pearson.  And well, basically it’s about how Peter Pan became Peter Pan.  It starts out with Peter and a few other boys (a.k.a the Lost Boys) from the local orphanage being loaded on to a great ship called (obviously…) The Neverland, to be sold to a far off King as slaves.  But the Neverland is accidentally loaded with a mysterious cargo, which we later discover as a trunk full of magical starstuff, or a fallen star.

And low and behold this magical cargo is perused my the most notorious pirate to ever sail under the Jolly Roger, Black Stache (who of course later becomes affectionately known as Hook, after Peter cuts off his hand and feeds it to the ridiculously large crocodile Mister Grin who develops an affinity for said pirate and follows him around for the rest of his life hoping for another taste.)

When tragedy falls the Neverland  leaving Peter and the Lost Boys, along with the trunk of starstuff, shipwrecked on a desert Island. (I’m sure you can see where this is headed…) Leaving them sitting ducks for Stache, or so he thinks.  Battles commence in which Black Stache has his hand cut off, and Peter and the Island (which they name Neverland after the name plank from the ill fated ship washes up on shore) are exposed to large amounts of the starstuff, allowing Peter to once and for all escape the clutches of Stache and his crew by flying to his freedom, and thus creating his legacy.

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