The Bigfoot Journal
It was then, with the rain falling in sheets as we were heading back to the truck, that we finally saw our first trout rise. It rolled in a pool that now, with no sun above to illuminate its depth, looked ink-black and bottomless. We were cold and wet and the rain was coming down hard, but neither of us could resist a final cast.
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Like many dads, I have come to realize that the answer to "Are we there yet?" will never be "Yes." Along with gravity and polarity and flat tires, it is one of the immutable laws of the universe.
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I want my boys to be resilient. I want them to have courage and inner-strength. They need challenges, and they need to solve small problems on their own. They need to see that success comes from hard work.
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Blue Highways is is the kind of book that makes you proud to live in a country that still has open spaces and forgotten corners. The prose is sharp and its moral compass is even truer now than ever. It's a reminder to slow down. To unplug. To worry less about ETAs and more about being in a moment.
Better than any smartphone app and infinitely more meaningful, Hatchet's story of courage and self-reliance is exactly what our kids need more of.
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