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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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
V.S. Naipaul -
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark Twain -
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.
William Faulkner -
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen -
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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