Will Jennings wrote: > 1. Failure to adapt. snippage > Darwin is right....those who don't have the skills > to adapt are most likely the first to exit the gene pool. > I had an instructor who has a term for this as it applies to outdoor pursuits. "Recreational Darwinism." More snippage. > Small casualty resulting from not paying attention to bad decision making > that might > have caused a much more tragic result than my bruised ego. I could swear I > heard the whistle telling me to get out of the gene pool. I like it! Great visual, too! Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Aug 14 2000 - 09:59:49 PDT
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