My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver curve of river folds the traveller into its embrace. Rory MacLean Last weekend, after a couple of months of pestering, I eventually persuaded Expert2 that we need to get the double kayak down and on the river…
June 5: Perfect waters
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal” Martine Luther King By getting out on the road, it has brought me a peace that I didn’t know was possible. It has calmed he inner workings of my mind, and settled a niggling feeling…
June 3: Ducks (geese actually) in a row
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way” John. C. Maxwell A good lesson… get your ducks, or geese in this case, in a row, topped with a beautiful background. True leadership qualities…walk the walk, walk the talk, swim the swim…do whatever it takes, but good organizational skills…
May 30: Surveying the calm
“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land” Also Leopoldo On our walk today Riley was surveying the calm and it made me notice the sharp contrast between the beauty of the river and the ugliness of the industry on the other bank. Somehow we need to find the harmony between the two,…