Ph: Nature: Canoeing The Mississippi Comments

Come on Mr. Long fellow, these chain of adventurous odyssey are as stunning as the size and majestic nature of the Mississippi River. In the future, I will surely join you in this trip. I like it from the beginning to the end as you take your reader through a very suspenseful journey that thrills and ignites passion. I enjoyed reading this...great job!

Chapter 1: BJ, a poet note about Your lightning like flash across the land Has haunted my dreams the whole of my life would be useful to me. :) - - - - - - - - - - - - - glis·san·do ɡliˈsändō/ noun Music noun: glissando; plural noun: glissandi; plural noun: glissandos a continuous slide upward or downward between two notes. ................*******yeah, i thought it might have to do with music. - - - - - - - - - - Chapter 2: you need to stop buying those cheap down jackets! - - - - - - - Chapter 3: thank goodness for friendly gnats; are you crazy? :) i can understand your sister's concern. ........................3) My sister was so worried by our late arrival that search and rescue planes were sent out flying the river in search of our bodies! Ha! if she wanted to collect on any life insurance, having bodies helps! HA! :) - - - - - - - - - - btw, i've noticed and been reading your annotations since after i looked up glissando. thanks for them. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Chapter 4: Cass Lake's Boy's Camp..........................why not Boys'? did the other boys drown due to poor counseling? ? - - - - - - - - - - - Chapter 5: ok, i read and commented on this chapter (on its 'alone' page) a while back [you have copied my comment, with others, above]. but it was not until today that reading this really grabbed me and impressed me. unless it impressed me before but i just forgot that it did! Only imagination powers the projector of what can be................of course one does NOT (i repeat NOT) need words for an imagination. right? [an inside joke] i wonder who sponsored the free movies. the tobacco etc. companies? how did the 'natives' respond to seeing Tarzan et al? ? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Chapter 6: pehaps my favorite lines so far: And wild rice growing there filters even more The rich loam carried by cloud burst erosion Always looking for a quiet place to call home. ............... like me, a piece of dirt always looking for a home. :) :) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - actually, i'm enjoying this, though i would not thrill myself with some of the experiences described. some, yes. how YOUNG were you? ? ? ? ok, i'll send it to MyPoemList now, before i forget; it should help my 'points standing'......with PH and YOU. - - - - - - - - - - Chapter 7: i had to look up blithe, which i found in the following stanza [perhaps my favorite one so far]: (which definition are you using, BJ?) Oh let me sing of the river's people No, not holiday boaters, but those rare few Whose homes and hearts embrace the river, Trafficking in all that she so blithely carries. Backyards a port of entry for wayward canoeists Seeking naught but groceries and Dr. Peppers, Well, maybe an occasional Dairy Queen as well. blithe i had an uncle who ran a Dairy Queen (a soft ice cream store) in Ithaca NY when i was a boy. unfortunately i don't think he ran it when, years later, i traveled 50 miles from my hometown to attend cornell u. in that city. : ( blithe blīT͟H, blīTH/ adjective adjective: blithe; comparative adjective: blither; superlative adjective: blithest 1 showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper. a blithe disregard for the rules of the road synonyms: casual, indifferent, unconcerned, unworried, untroubled, uncaring, careless, heedless, thoughtless; nonchalant, blasé a blithe disregard for the rules antonyms: thoughtful 2 happy or joyous. a blithe seaside comedy synonyms: happy, cheerful, jolly, merry, joyful, joyous, blissful, ecstatic, euphoric, elated; datedgay his blithe, smiling face - - - - - - - - - - re your note: (7) The hospitality and generosity of the Minnesotan people we met on this trip was for me almost beyond belief. We truly were treated like celebrities. with your oklahoma accent and odd ways, they probably thought you were an alien and were in awe of you, feared you, or thought you could use your superior brainpower to increase their crop yields (animal or vegetable) ! ! ! or some combination of the above. ;) bri ================== Chapter 8: Below one dam a three mile jumble of boulders. are you sure about all of this? it is not imagined? ? ? ? more favorite lines: I steered as best I could between foaming protrusions That prudence whispered likely hid a rock. but, really, what an imagination! ! ! ! :) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - you wrote: And many State Campgrounds lay beside her flank, of course you have done what many DO, when you wrote: And many State Campgrounds lay beside her flank, lie, not lay! am i correct or what? ? and right or left flank? i recently saw laying listed on a sign outside a county office building. it was one thing which was prohibited. there are quite a few 'homeless'? people in the city, and the covered area was near the jail entrance. Lying is what i believe they should have written. but, i suppose then many readers, like you, would misunderstand! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Lie (lying) vs. Lay (laying) : (courtesy of writersdigest.com) Lay Lay and lie are both present-tense verbs, but they don’t mean quite the same thing. Lay means to put or set something down, so if the subject is acting on an object, it’s “lay.” For example, I lay down the book. You, the subject, set down the book, the object. Lie Lie, on the other hand, is defined as, “to be, to stay or to assume rest in a horizontal position, ” so the subject is the one doing the lying—I lie down to sleep or When I pick up a copy of my favorite magazine, Writer’s Digest, I lie down to take in all its great information—and not acting on an object. In both these cases, you, the subject, are setting yourself down. Are you with me so far? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - But a pall of mosquitoes infests more timbered parks That no wind short of a tornado has the power to disperse, We ate our evening meals under beekeeper's hats and nets, I'm told locals enjoy watching them dive bomb cooling meals. .........cooling meals meaning campers cooling in the evening? yikes. not my kind of enjoyable vacation. :) bri   this seems like a good ending to your saga. is it? thanks for sharing. and, again, how old were you; i mean YOUNG? now, I REALLY will send it to MyPoemList. i suppose you now navigate a bathtub/jacuzzi? bri :) i have not proofread this!