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A Quote That Really Hits Home. |  | I am reading Homelands: Kayaking the Inside Passage by Bryon Ricks. He has a great grasp of flowery prose, but there is also some real meat to his writing. Lines you can really sink your teeth into.
One passage that really struck me was.....
"You can paddle with agility, skill, and endurance along a shoreline, but that is entirely different from letting go of that shore. On a crossing you confront that which lies beyond, a vague and distant land, exposure, changes in wind and tides, and after a point, no returning, no chance to abort. When you have crossed open water, no matter how calm or tempestuous or how often, you have crossed something in yourself, confronted and conquered and transcended a fear, a doubt, and passed into the gracious shores of new land and known water. "
I want this. I need this. I want to feel this, to experience it. This is a part of what kayaking means to me. |
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RikostanonTuesday 26 January 2010 - 23:44:09  Read/Post Comment: 0
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