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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“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?” That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only…
Part of the Adventure is the uncertainty
“If you are starting out on an adventure and are already convinced that you will succeed, why even start?” -Sir Edmund Hillary Tweet
“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…
Risk Managment
Everywhere I went I tried to learn, assimilating the positive qualities of various employers, even if I didn’t admire all their traits. I learned from Raiders owner Al Davis, the man who fired me four games into the 1989 season. When I was around him, I would ask myself, “why has he won three Super…
“There’s the life for a man like me”
Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There’s the life for a man like me, There’s the life for ever. – Robert Louis Stevenson…
“…the river bends.”
“If my ship sails from sight, it does not mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.” John Enoch Powell