What was planned to be a glorious reunion on the water with an old friend, turned into a gloomy, wind-blown, and solitary paddle. Adventure is adventure nonetheless. Always be inspired, and never stay home (even if you live in a van).
“Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.”
-Elizabeth Lawrence
August is laughing across the sky
Laughing while paddle, canoe and I,
Drift, drift,
Where the hills uplift
On either side of the current swift.
Be strong, O paddle!
Be brave, canoe!
The reckless waves
you must plunge into.
Reel, reel.
On your trembling keel,
But never a fear my craft will feel. -My Paddle Sings, E. Pauline Johnson
“There is nothing that is so aesthetically pleasing and yet so functional and versatile as the canoe” – Bill Mason
“I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.” -Henry David Thoreau
When I must leave the great river
O bury me close to its wave
And let my canoe and my paddle
Be the only mark over my grave
From ‘Mon Canoe d’écorce’
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