On Aug 12, 11:13*pm, Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:48:07 -0700 (PDT),

wrote:
Was hoping to see a "Double Reid"

There is a half-Reid and a full-Reid. *A double Reid would require his
lovely wife Brenda to accompany him on a full-Reid, or for two
fishermen, perhaps wading a current buddy-style, to both have a full
immersion. *I've had a double Reid with my granddaughter, many full
Reids, and too many half Reids to count.

LaCourse

Rather odd really, but when I read Mr.Reids stuff, it conjures a
number of things, "bending like a Reid in the wind" also takes on new
meaning.

Somehow I can see him being dragged along an erratic plough track by
an insane machine, frantically clawing at the duct tape holding him
irrevocably bound and steering him to his unknown destiny.

It also reminds me of other things, an oboe solo I once heard, the
works of Sigurd Olson;

"I know my dream, know what I want to do, but it will die and I will
continue doing the thing that is easy, live comfortably and after a
time give up entirely. Then the ghost of what once was me, the bright
flame of the personality that was Sig Olson – adventurer, woodsman,
explorer, author, lecturer, idealist, man of the wilderness – will
stroll through my rooms as a ghost, looking disdainfully at the
comforts I have gained. Then when I am alone and it reproaches me, I
will know the meaning of the words, “He sold his birthright for a mess
of pottage,” for that is exactly what I have done. That is exactly
what I have done. That is exactly what all men do who give up their
dreams. A man who loses his dream is old, one who has it is
perennially young, I see it now as I have always seen it, but now it
is a stark reality".

http://www.herondance.org/The-Works-...9_webpage.aspx

Lots of other things come to mind as well, various mishaps and
catastrophes. Our lives are largely mapped and defined by
such................

TL
MC

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