During the past four years, politicization of the word “swamp” gave that natural environment a bad name. It’s bad enough that the first thing many of us think about when the word “swamp” comes up is hungry alligators. In this case, the swamp is a murky place of procedural and rhetorical bog that presumably honorable …
Reflecting on wetlands that we don’t necessarily want to drain Read More »
“The captain waded through flooded passageways, his shins pushing against water, his feet slowed by a current that kept growing. The last of the kerosene lamps burned out, the matches wet, the rags wet, and he waded as he waded rivers on moonless nights,waiting for holes to swallow him, wary of snags. Still, water poured …
Capturing the spirits of those who remain ‘Harborless’ Read More »
“I made you, Paddle Person, because I had a dream. A little wooden man smiled at me. He sat in a canoe on a snowbank on this hill. Now the dream has begun to come true. The Sun Spirit will look down at the snow. The snow will melt and the water will run downhill …
Vintage Great Lakes tale washes ashore after decades in Lake Superior Read More »
“The United States is struggling. Increasingly bitter cultural and racial divides hobble the country. The political system is all but rigged with gerrymandering and unlimited special interest money. The health care system is broken, and even modest reforms risk repeal. A good education can mean a lifetime of debt. With no hope of any gun …
Thoughts on the upcoming election from the boundary waters Read More »
“…Maybe if I pray every each night I sit there pleading ‘send back my dream test baby, she’s my main feature’ My TVC 15, yeah, he just stares back unblinking So hologramic, oh, my TVC 15 One of these nights I may just jump down that rainbow way Be with my baby, then we’ll spend …
“It is impossible to describe the feeling that was mine on coming out of the wilderness into the open space of the Bay. We sat in our canoes for a long time just looking at the open sea. The Bay was the only thought in my mind. No one spoke as we felt the first …
First glimpse of water… and ‘you could see forever’ Read More »
“a vacation spent in one’s home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.” – definition of a stayacation The coronavirus has had a stifling effect one’s wanderlust, to say the least. And if your idea of adventure takes you beyond the four walls of your shelter, …
“The sturgeon fish is swimming into our lives to prove we are stronger than we realize, and we may see the fruition of our intentions planted several months earlier, at the Aquarius New Moon back in February this year. The sturgeon is a tough fish that can live up to 140 years, offering hope we …
“Being on the water, watching the water moving, makes us intelligent and when we become intelligent we become well.”
“You’ll know when you get there.” – Herbie Hancock The jazz composer and performer Herbie Hancock was discussing a new direction in his music with then NPR program host Billy Taylor in the early 1970s. The context of the discussion was the album Quasar. Taylor asked him to explain what he was trying to do …