Day Five
It is summer 2009 and you aren’t working.

We call 2009 the Year of the Person-Kite.
Around two years ago, people stopped looking outward for trouble in the world and started looking into themselves. And after a few months, they started looking to the sky.
It was on May fifteenth, 2008 that the sighting of a Person-Kite was first documented. There had been rumors of their existence, to be sure, but the Wiltfordshire Chronicle in southern Britain was the first newspaper to record the phenomenon’s existence. It was the first time in the weekly pamphlet’s history that color was used in a photograph, and for months afterward the editor would insist to anyone who listened that he had neither told the printer to use color nor been charged for its use.
But the colors were there, for all to see. And soon Person-Kites themselves were appearing, unannounced and unexpected, for all to see. They weren’t advertised, and they weren’t sold in stores – not the conventional ones, at least – but they multiplied nonetheless. An underground journal, the PKJ, began to circulate in August of that year, containing accounts of people’s first Person-Kite sightings, their first Person-Kite experiences. Everyone had a story; what Kennedy was to the sixties, the Person-Kite was to us. By September they seemed to be everywhere. We found as winter came that they didn’t work as well in colder weather, and so we waited for Spring to take to the skies.
In April, the sky was a rainbow of people.