Help,” he said, “is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly. - Norman Maclean

In this story of the outside world and the inside world with a fire between, the outside world of little screwups recedes now for a few hours to be taken over by the inside world of blowups, this time by a colossal blowup but shaped by little screwups that fitted together tighter and tighter until all became one and the same thing — the fateful blowup.

Somehow it's hard to quit with an odd number of fish, so I wanted one more for four,

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.