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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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…
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
“All things merge into one… and a river runs through it”
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops-under rocks are the words and some of the words are theirs.” -Norman Maclean (from a River Runs Through…
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
Keep Believing in Yourself…
“Keep believing in yourself.” – Harvey McKay
U.S. Navy Battleship vs. Modesitt Canoe
As we pass a Navy ship I look up in awe at its size and power. I would hate to come up against this thing in a fight. But then again, i would doubt that they could see Kerala, our canoe, from there anyway. Near the end of the boat I see two sailors waving…