floating
Published July 6, 2011 | 
River, show me how to float / I feel like I’m sinking down
Thought that I could get along / But here in this water
My feet won’t touch the ground / I need something to turn myself around
- gabriel
Tomorrow before the sun comes up, I’ll be rallying the troops & poking and prodding them into the Jeep before sunrise to make the 4 hour drive up to Door County to kick off 10 days of travel and symposiums. At some point each summer I’m out of the office for two weeks for what my business clients call a “vacation”. Vacation? Bah! Continue reading
Do You Like Fish?
Published July 2, 2011 | 
Ooh you’re a holiday , ev’ry day , such a holiday / Now it’s my turn to say , and I say you’re a holiday
It’s something I thinks worthwhile / If the puppet makes you smile
If now then you’re throwing stones / Throwing stones , throwing stones
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- bee gees
July 4th, weekend. Another summer holiday is upon us, Charlie Brown. (Here in the States anyway.) I don’t know about you, but for me annual summer holidays and events are sad reminders of how short summer really is. Each holiday, each event and each paddling symposium, mark the passing of another chunk of summer life on the relentless race to the frigid darkness of winter. Now I bet that made your day!
I wonder how many of you will spend part or most of your holiday weekend out kayaking? I know how addicts are! Heck, last night it was nearly 8pm when I suddenly had a craving to hit the water. We’re now in the middle of a tropical style heat wave and by the time the sun began to fall on the horizon I was going mentally and physically numb from the heat. In a mad rush, we loaded a kayak & beach gear into the jeep and 10 minutes later we were at the local lake playing in the water just as the sun began to fall behind the bluffs. Continue reading
I woke up this morning to a blood-red dawn, dark around the edges with flashes of white. Before the sun could light up the day, heavy storms squashed the light. As I walked the dunes I came across a deer standing on one of the high mounds silhouetted against the glow. An amazing sight! Continue reading →