Thanks, Dads
Dad and Grandpa energy, Riverhorse on the gallop, and more in the Weekly Update
CFS massive,
For many of us, myself included, dads were a gateway to fishing. Those two guys up there, my father and maternal grandfather, were how I came to understand much about angling and the outdoor world, to say nothing of how to engage the world with curiosity and kindness.
Fatherhood is an intense and mysterious business, wrapped up in all the garments of modern confusion. But through the ages, underneath it all, is a core of loving care, or guidance and patience, of pride and acknowledgement.
Whether you came by angling, or your interest in the outdoors, through a father figure, or you've just got someone in your life that exhibits the care and nurturing that we could wrap in the warm and comforting bathrobe of "dad energy" (or the next step, ultra-indulgent and playful "grandpa energy"), today we're cinching up the belt, patting a little proverbial aftershave on our cheeks and going out into the world with that fresh, astringent scent of adventure and optimism.
Where you could find me this Father's Day
One of the few presidential fly fishing memoirs that has so far escaped my grasp, plus some volunteer help harvesting and weeding and in the community garden? My people get me.
The perfect Father's Day gift? Perhaps! Get dad a Lower Deschutes Ribbon Map. He'll love the blank check to explore.
📆 Event of the week
I'm midway through Water Lines, Riverhorse Nakadate's debut collection of fishing stories, and really enjoying it. Filmmaker, paddler, angler, surfer, guitarist, and conservationist (a multi-hyphenate outdoors polymath as it were) Nakadate's writing has strength of voice and the pulse of a fellow who strides with optimism and energy, barbaric yawping across the cosmos.
Nakadate is coming to Portland for a reading this Tuesday, June 23 at 6:30pm at Patagonia Portland on W. Burnside, in conversation with CFS pal Jesse Lance Robbins in what promises to be an evening you really shouldn't miss. RSVP here.
I'm hoping we'll catch up with Riverhorse round these parts in the future, but until then, you can pick up Water Lines—which includes great watercolor illustrations throughout from Sarah L. Stephens—at one of the remaining stops on his book tour, or wherever good books are sold.
Catch Riverhorse on the road:
- Emerald Water Anglers – Seattle, WA — Jun 24
- Village Books & Paper Dreams – Bellingham, WA — Jun 25
- Patagonia St. Paul – St. Paul, MN — Jul 16
- Patagonia Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh, PA — Jul 22
- Patagonia Nashville – Nashville, TN — Jul 23
- Patagonia Atlanta – Atlanta, GA — Jul 29
- Montana Troufitters – Bozeman, MT — Sep 16
- Patagonia Dillon – Dillon, MT — Sep 17
- Patagonia Boulder – Boulder, CO — Sep 30
- Visible Voice Books – Cleveland, OH — Oct 10
- Patagonia Boston – Boston, MA — Oct 22
That's it that's all! Current Flow State is a weekly newsletter from me, Nick Parish.
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