One of the pleasures of my job includes doing “research” such as my recent trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho. I had a wonderful trip organized by Solitude Rafting Company of Ketchum and wrote about …
Tag: baptism by whitewater
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And as imagination bodies forth
William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a nam -
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.
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“One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store.”
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“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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