signed & titled
Ted, a Zen Buddhist, grew up on the banks of the Elbow River in Calgary, walking and fly fishing the river with his father. His parent’s ashes were scattered over the Bow River. He writes in the Beginnings chapter of his Lower Bow Journal:
The foregoing is never far from my mind when I fish the river….there is always that little extra thought evoked by casting a fly over the waters….I have been heard to enquire (depending on the sex): “Is that you Mum? Is that you Dad?”…..To date, I have not had a fish wink back….God knows what I will do if the day ever comes that one does make a sign.
