Labrador Puppy: Wilderness Cabin

Montreal Gazette Dept: Cities used to have a compelling raison -safety, commerce, the interchange of ideas. Now modernity has rendered them unnecessary for commerce and ideas, and too often they offer far less personal security than the reputed badlands beyond urban walls. Think about it: How do you like your chances with citified goons out of 24 or the bar scene in Star Wars, compared with happening upon a black bear browsing for berries in an alpine meadow?, according to Montreal Gazette. The river is 50 metres wide and not particularly distinguished for its beauty or strength. But it is the barrier, or moat, that has to be traversed -by swimming -to retrieve the canoe stashed in the cabin. The canoe serves as a ferry between cabin and car while we're in residence. Then one hauls it up the bank and stows it in the cabin, and -with the Labrador puppy, of course -swims back across to the car and the long road home to "the social ramble" that "ain't restful" as Satchel Paige reminded us and steve McQueen, the quirky movie actor, said he'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on the planet. Roger that, bro'. It's funny -odd funny -that only after some time spent in a city does one discover that what he really was looking for is something he left behind, back where his heart is. On the water, in a canoe, on a mountainside, or -as in our case -in a river's-edge wilderness cabin. As reported in the news.
@t alpine meadow, satchel paige