Showing posts with label Salmon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salmon. Show all posts

Friday, September 18, 2015

Nobility


Are you taking pictures of dead fish?

Yes. Yes I am.

I am fascinated by the carnage that litters the Alaskan streamsides and can only imagine what it will look like in a month. The imperative that exists within these fish, to swim hundreds of miles to their birthplaces, to do their thing and then call it a life, amazes me. To see the swimming zombies, spent and deteriorating, flesh falling from their bones, but still fighting the currents to perpetuate their species, humbles me.

Do I have such courage, such commitment, such ragged nobility within me?

Do you?






Mike, you're weird.

Yes. Perhaps I am. But then you probably don't see them as I do.

Or do you?