To-Do List for Next Cabin Visit

—Break off the spruce branch that slaps my face when I walk down to the creek.

—Throw two sticks end-over-end in the meadow.

—Stand above the creek and stare at the wavering reflection of myself until a yellow willow leaf floats by.

—Find a chipmunk in the woods and say: “Love you, man!”

—Look for a moose.

—Go back to the creek and, while listening to the water murmuring, consider how powerfully the trout flexed against your palm before you released them back in the clear water the last time you fished there.  Toss a blade of grass in the riffles and watch until the blade has been carried off to eternity.

—Pitch a green rock in any direction.

Mitchell Hegman