THE LAST RIVER MILE
Thoughts near the take-out.
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“The fastest, easiest way to galvanize people together is to give them something to hate.” – Bill Posegate (among others) My dad was a veteran, who loved God and who loved his country. (In that order, with the latter answerable to the former.) He grew up in the shadow of the Second World War, and…
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If I’m on a canoe float on a river and my canoe keeps turning over, that’s a symptom that something is wrong. I’m not maintaining balance in the vessel, weight in the canoe is poorly distributed, I’m not leaning correctly in turns, the person in the bow and I are not in sync, I’m guiding…
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Think about how much of American life depends on the presumption of “not enough.” Marketing has to convince each of us that we must correct the “not enough” in our lives. You don’t have enough money. Your car isn’t new enough. Your house isn’t big enough. You don’t have enough stuff. Your bandwidth isn’t strong…
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I went on my first canoe float trip on an Ozark Missouri stream at twelve years old, in 1965. That started a love affair with canoeing and kayaking that has lasted sixty years. That first float covered about 90 miles on the Current River. On my very first day in a canoe on a river…
THE LAST RIVER MILE 