I'm with friends, hiking up the north face of a steep ridge. Snowpatches under evergreens. We're headed for a griflynx town on the ridgetop. An eager griflynx leads us up the steep slope, charging past us and wheeling back--like all her people, she's as rambunctious as an otter. When she barrels downslope, she spreads her small wings--they're big enough to let her glide and wheel, but not gain altitude--not yet. Not vestigial, evolving!

Even though their current wings gives them no great survival edge, I think griflynxes will achieve true flight. It's evolution by emotion. They love gliding, even more than running, and do it all the time, not just when it gives them an advantage. That joy is visible.

And is anything sexier than delight?

• Griffins, flight: today I briefly flashed on the scene from a Harry Potter film of riding a hippogriff in flight.
• Happy flier dances in circles; sexual selection for joy, not traits that are practical advantages (yet): next day, Julie Feinstein's "Field Guide to Urban Wildlife" says turkey vultures gather and dance in circles and figure eights. Feinstein says it's not courtship; "no one knows why." My dream proposed an answer before the question was posed.
• ACTION: do what I love, and don't hide what I love. Delight's sexier than any look or trend. Happiness attracts love.

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