Posted by derrick on
May 9, 2008
Hey, here’s a new website worth checking out. Reel Water Productions is of course the home of Bryan Smith creator of the Pacific Horizons DVD, 49 Megawatts and more. Bryan and I have been working on this site for a bit of time now and we’re both happy to finally make it available to everyone. Once I got the template down, Bryan took over. . . and I have to admit I was amazed by the amount on content. You’ll find video clips, bios, past production history, a large gallery of pictures and no less than 3 blogs! Yeah, well 2 of them have been around for awhile but now they are all living in the same home. So check it out at www.ReelWaterProductions.com. Congrats Bryan on the new site!
Posted by derrick on
May 9, 2008
Found out this morning
There’s a circus coming to town
They drive in Cadillacs
Using walkie-talkies, and the Secret Service
- talking heads
This week I had my first two sea kayaking classes of the new season and both of course had their own personalities. The first was loose and laid back. We covered a lot of the points I wanted to cover and yet, driving home I could pinpoint bits and pieces that I wanted to do differently or that I felt I overlooked.
Posted by derrick on
May 8, 2008
In the shuffling madness- of the locomotive breath,
runs the all-time loser, headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping — steam breaking on his brow –
old Charlie stole the handle and the train won’t stop going –
no way to slow down. - tull
It’s probably the nature of the moment; The media screams of politics, the opinion battles of guns, gods, activists and naysayers, the wind tunnel nature of my own little world of late, the sound of heavy trucks passing by on the highway. . . Whatever the reasons and likely for all these reasons and a multitude others that have so easily woven into the din, the tenor, the beat, the drums, the bells, the noise seems slightly overwhelming. Even the birds seem strangly loud. An oppressive atmosphere seems filled with acrid odors aloft on a racing wind.
Posted by derrick on
May 6, 2008
Oh the minute I put them on
I knew I had done something wrong
All her gifts for the dance had gone
Its the red shoes, they cant stop . . . .dancing
- k. bush
Experience is a funny thing. It puts education in perspective. You learn that some things you were taught as rules are really guidelines at best, and many things you were never exposed to should have been part of the program. In religion it’s sometimes suggested that a young minister will focus on the law and the old will focus on forgiveness. Such is the nature of experience. This of course is why teachers need experience with their subject, and not just experience teaching. Such are the thoughts that come to my mind as I get ready for my first class of the new season.
Posted by derrick on
May 5, 2008
Excuse me while I light my spliff
Good god, I gotta take a lift
From reality I just cant drift
Thats why I am staying with this riff
Somedays you just stop whatever you’re doing and load up the kayak and head to the nearest bit of water you can find.
Well, that’s the FIRST thing you do. . .
Posted by derrick on
May 4, 2008
The day went haywire. Of course the plan was to get out and paddle. I’d been quite looking forward to it. The local lake is flooding and for the first time in quite a few years I’ll get a chance to paddle on the road! (Something I hope to get at today.) So when it didn’t work out yesterday I was sort bumming and sitting out by the dining room window when Mary noticed something big landing out in the pasture across the road. We see turkey vultures there regularly so it was quite a surprise to see 3 Bald Eagles instead! 2 adults and one yearling. When you see nature from the cockpit of a kayak it somehow feels much different. In a sense it’s like living in a nature film, yet at the same time it seems somehow "correct". When these amazing creatures decide to stop by the house, it’s oddly surreal. (More pictures after the jump)
Posted by derrick on
May 3, 2008
So this is when you know you spend too much time thinking about kayaking. . . I walked onto this trail and was suddenly thinking about ferrying.
