March 2010

MAIN STREET AND A WILD TURKEY

March 30, 2010

I turned right out of the driveway onto Main Street, as I do every weekday morning–the kids clamoring from the back seat for for me to pump up the iPod and give them something to get their day started. Music to them is about 3 cups of hi-test for me. God love ‘em. A quarter-mile [...]

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FLY FISHING IN HOLLAND, Installment 3, Thesis

March 28, 2010

[10] I once fished a brackish water lake in Holland near the Port of Rotterdam for rainbows. Bought a train ticket & boarded at Den Haag Centrum at 6:21 for a twenty-two minute ride to Rotterdam, catching a subway at Rotterdam Centrum bound for Spijkenisse to meet Harry, who would drive to Oostvoornse Meer & [...]

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BY THE LAKE, Installment 2, Thesis

March 25, 2010

[51] Deep evening. I light my pipe & pull up a chair by the lake. Geese are arriving, one pair at a time, sometimes two. Their song in flight echoes as they pass on my side of the island. It is different than the song that signals their circling, different still than their song as [...]

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MY THESIS WAS ABOUT FISHING

March 24, 2010

My dad told me a long time ago that one of the things he admires about me is that I always do things 30-degrees left or right of center. I’ve managed to find or create my own path, no matter how arduous or easy it may turn out to be… and more often than not, [...]

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