I saw a report this morning that Superior-North Canoe Outfitters has lost most of its structures to the Ham Lake Fire, which is currently burning in the Boundary Waters. Superior-North outfitted the first BWCA trip Rosie and I ever went on together (which was my first ever).
Every Journey Begins Before A Single Step
I was 18 [...]
I come to bed
after you
I slip in and get still
the night so quiet and
so dark
I listen to you breathe
and I breathe you in
Some spring day in Madison
back then
you played
"Kathy’s Song" for me
on your guitar
singing softly
in your dorm room
and then we sat in the sun
on the mall
watching a kid blow bubbles
I laid my head [...]
And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.
- A River Runs through It, Norman Maclean
I have often thought to myself that life is a nothing more and nothing less than a quest for understanding. To [...]
The road trip to end all road trips
Minnesota — Black Hills, South Dakota (Deadwood, fly fishing, etc.) — Cody, Wyoming (Buffalo Bill museum) — Yellowstone (O, Yellowstone) — Bozeman, Montana (friends and memories and mountains and rivers) — Missoula (never been, wonderful mountains [...]
“We started with silence and I will always uphold a person’s right to silence.”
~ Mr. Rogers, “This American Life,” #184
It is a good thing to be surprised. Be it someone appearing when you least expect it (i.e. when Rosie and I traded surprise visits to each other during our long-distance college days… I’ll never forget walking into the coffee shop in Madison as she swept up after closing, without looking up she said, “Sir, [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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