16 or 17 years: After many hours around the campfire we set off down the lush summertime sandstone valley on the tracks, quiet and happy. Gradually light creeps into the canyon and I wake up as if into a soft dream.. 18 years: Standing on the patio in the pale dawn light, Fisherman and I [...]
Of Memory and Ashes
May 9, 2007
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 [...]
Breathe You In
February 14, 2007
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 [...]
Nosce Te Ipsum
February 10, 2007
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. [...]
Friday Dreaming
February 9, 2007
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 and fishing history and opportunities) — Nez Perce National Historic Park, [...]
The Original State
December 22, 2006
“We started with silence and I will always uphold a person’s right to silence.” ~ Mr. Rogers, “This American Life,” #184