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Danyce Mills's avatar

Reminds me of camping at Joshua Tree. Thank you for sharing your heaven with us. Your story inspired me…

Lainey S. Cronk's avatar

Wow! Powerful and intimate. I especially love the line "An explosion of wings, finally, the poetry that their escape has written."

Deborah's avatar

You and us through your words and photos were certainly in heaven.

Dick Busher's avatar

I so much envy your travels, especially the fishing trips. Well written my friend.

David E. Perry's avatar

Thank you my friend!

Toni Prehoda Kahler's avatar

Sacred poem, this. "Real and wild ...and heart-rending, heaven." So beautiful! Every word, each photograph, brings deep feeling...

Oh Dave---I love your river, because you take me along through your words & art--and so I see, and so I sense. And so your river is no longer a stranger, but a friend I would feel at home with...

"Running my weathered finger along the edges of reawakened wonder. Rebirth. Childhood."

Layer after layer after layer---this poem will linger long with me...

Saxon Holt's avatar

Heaven is attainable

Veronica's avatar

Gosh, what a river she must be. So happy to read of your adventures and of your appreciation for all that is. The photos, especially that night sky, are dreamy. 🌌

Steffany's avatar

Oh my. I was right there with you. Except for the fishing bits which I don’t do. But the sky and the whole notion of heaven in the natural world - yes to that. All of that. Thank you for bringing us along with you.

Debbie Thomas's avatar

So eloquent…so appreciated

Betsy Millmann's avatar

My husband would have loved this. He fished wherever we traveled. From Utah to Canada to the arctic to Bhutan. He knew every brook and river within miles of home. He knew all the birds, insects, creatures. Gone two years.

David E. Perry's avatar

Makes me achey for you, Betsy. He sounds pretty wonderful. Bet we'd have gotten along.

So glad you're here.

Sheila Dunlop's avatar

Thank you for taking us with you!💕