Why we paddle…
There is something you get out of paddling that you can’t get in any other sport. It’s finding the happy balance with an always changing force of nature, and it makes you feel very small yet powerful at the same time.” Shannon Caroll
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“Our deepest fear…”
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It s our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people around you won’t feel insecure. We are…
Reach for the Stars
I’d rather be a “could-be” if I cannot be and “are”; because a “could be” is a “maybe” who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a “has-been” than a “might-have-been,” by far. For a “might-have-been” has never “been,” but a “has” was once an “are.” -Milton Berle Tweet
Messing around
“There’s nothing… absolutely nothing… half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats.” -Kenneth Grahme, The Wind in the Willows Tweet
The Mexican Fisherman
An American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied “only…
Living on a raft…
It’s lovely to live on a raft and sometimes we’d have that whole river to ourselves for the longest time.” -Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain Tweet
Courage…
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you, you are wrong. There are always difficulties rising, which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end, requires some of the same courage…