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Infuriatingly Meaningless Cliches: A John Day River Meditation

Sang the catfish: When I was just a fry in school, I asked my teacher, "What will I be? Should I paint pictures" Should I sing songs?" Hereā€™s what she said to me: "Que sera, sera, Whatever will be, will be; The future's not ours to see. Que sera, sera, What will be, will be." Itā€™s a hard song to sing with a hook in your lip. Scott setting out from the Service Creek Launch Point Photo copyright 2012 by Fred Lee Riversā€¦ ā€¦are often perceived as a metaphor for Life. Except in the case of this particular river, weā€™ve had to acquire a permit to float on it and weā€™ve exhaustively studied its map ahead of time. Between Kip and Uncle Rico and me, we have GPS locations for where weā€™d like to end up each day, and weā€™re pretty sure we know when the trip is going to end. So itā€™s going to be a very loose metaphor ā€“ a three day vacation over a predetermined path. Also unlike ā€˜Lifeā€™, it turns out youā€™re not ...