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Tag Archives: dream
Water Lines
I hadn’t been fishing in a while and felt the need to reconnect. We’ve been working on the house all year, and some of the wettest months on record have produced poor opportunities for being on the water. Still, I … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, connections, dialogue, dream, fishing, mother nature, play, poetry, tracks, trout, Water, water lines, work, writing
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It Came From a Dream
There’s nothing like a wild free-flowing run… The statement seemed so obvious to me that I almost disregarded it. I was in Rhode Island for several days, enjoying myself but absent from the Opening Day of Trout Season in New … Continue reading
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Tagged art, clamming, dream, environment, family, fly-fishing, imagination, mansions, nature, Newport, opening day, reality, Rhode Island, small streams, wildness, writing
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The Dream Cast: Yellow Dun
1. James Cecilia is a “wet-fly-only angler” who lives in upstate New York. He contacted me about a mutual interest in the writings of Pennsylvania fisherman, Jim Bashline. Mr. Bashline was a fishing editor for Field & Stream, and author of … Continue reading
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Tagged Allegheny River, birds, culture, dream, hiking, ignorance, Isaac Asimov, Jim Bashline, knowledge, mystery, nature, night fishing, poetry, politics, trees, truth, wet fly, Yellow Dun
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“Astral Weeks” at Holiday
Many an evening in the early 1970s I would lie in bed late at night drifting into pleasant, edgy dreams while listening to Van Morrisons’s great album Astral Weeks on the stereo. All these years later, I can still give … Continue reading
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Tagged astral weeks, camouflage, Christianity, Christmas tree, dream, Fish Whisperer, music reviews, mysticism, paganism, soul, Sun, Van Morrison, Winter Solstice, Yule
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