How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.
Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.
As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word "beautiful.
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made sounds to us. It would be hard to find three men sitting side by side who knew better what a river was saying.