Cheryl and I really enjoy our canoes. A lot of people ask us whether we think they are worth having? Our answer is , “Absolutely!”
The reason we think having canoes particularly worthwhile is a little different to what you might think.
The reason we love our canoes is because they enable us to see things differently.
Do you know what Freshwater Bay or the Grenough River or even the Cottesloe pylon looks like from on the water? Not in it but on it? We get an entirely different perspective from our canoes than walking on the bank or stopping at a lookout.
I appreciate this different perspective when it comes to thinking about where I live, who I should vote for, what “normal” really is or what God thinks about things. A different perspective opens my mind, I live in a culture. That culture is far more closed than you or I might think.
As i was writing this post from my canoe i literally bumped in to the fella fishing from the bank. Looked up and there he was, big wide grin, Get a canoe for an entirely different perspective,
Yay daddy! bring on the canoooodles! Yay for seeing this in a different perspective; I know the feeling.My way of seeing life has drastically altered, and sometimes I don’t know if it’s good or bad… dunno what you guys’ll think when I come home; you’ll probably freak out and think I’ve turned into some rudderless hippy =P But a change of perspective is nice; refreshing, especially when you live in Cott; it gets reeeeeally complacent there very easily if you let it. I loves you and mummy looks so cute paddling the little canoe =] Love and miss you guys.
Love always from Melb,
Poopie Xo.