A Seger File Sidebar: Jim Harrison
What is it to actually go outside the nest
we have built for ourselves, and earlier
our father's nest; to go into a forest
alone with our eyes open? It's different
when you don't know what's over the hill --
keep the river on your left, then you see
the river on your right. I have simply
forgotten left and right, even up and down,
whirl then sleep on a cloudy day to forget
direction. It is hard to learn how
to be lost after so much training.
Jim Harrisonexcerpted from The Theory and Practice of Rivers
photo by Scott Sparling