Uncle Dan died last year at 89. Since then and because I fish alone for years at time, it's me.

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Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother, and are not all living things with feet or wings or roots their children? Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is!

-----Black Elk, Lakota Sioux Holy Man 1863-1950
from: "Black Elk Speaks", pub 1932