ABOVE The Dots Go Up. I’ve never been very good at traditional school. One day a teacher asked us to draw how we were feeling as we arrived in class. I had never felt so understood. LEFT My dad and I always did alpine starts growing up, hiking or climbing for a couple of hours in the dark. That’s always represented freedom to me, the ability to be up and warm when the rest of the world is tucked away. He grew up in England in houses stacked one on top of the other, and he told me a story over and over about when he came to the states with $400 and saw the open spaces of the West. For me, the West at night is freedom. THE FLYFISH JOURNAL 091
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