----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 5:49
PM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Thread
I couldn't resist this one!
Each spool of thread costs about $1.50 per spool,
depending on the thread, of course.
Each spool holds about 200 yards of thread, several hours of meditative
time at the tying bench, and an untokld number of dreams and memories.
Each spool holds the promise - and the hope - of the
once-in-a-lifetime adventure.
Each spool moves every fly tyer one fly closer to the
awesome perfection of A.K. Best; the innovation of Bob Clouser; the precision
of Gary Borger; the understanding of Earnest Hemmingway.
If - not when - you grow "old and have nothing better
to do", my young friend, I can assure you that there will be few memories
worthy of the spool of thread you now possess.
For you see, thread is not only the first in a series of materiel to be
placed upon the altar of our hopes called a hook - it is the stuff dreams are
forged from! I am not so sure that I own my thread; perhaps my thread
owns me!
I will be 57 by the end of this month - old by your
standards. (Remember I was once there, too, and thought the same thing)
My "tired, old" eyes have seen things which I hope you never witness; my ears
have heard the cries of hunger and despair; my home has been invaded by the
homeless and the ruthless. I have been tested and found wanting; yet
forgiven.
On those evenings when I must retreat from the world to gain perspective,
I sit at my fly tying bench with a simple $1.50 spool of thread and begin to
weave a better world where the water is gin-clear, the trout are ravenous, and
I have "nothing better to do" than to pray I can be an unobrusive part of it
all.
May God bless you! And may your fingers know the
joy of your thread!
Doug
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 6:07
PM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Thread
No i
just didn't know how much all of my stuff was worth. I figure i will
get intrested in it again one day when im old and have nothing better to do
that sit around but right now im 15 and a little busy of all of this with
school and all.
