The Fish, The Net, And The Water

Since early childhood nature, the wild, has been my sanctuary. I have never really questioned anything about it, just immersed myself in it. No matter what season of life I’ve found myself in, whether joyful or traumatic, nature has remained a steady presence, a grounding place. So it should come as no surprise that my entire adulthood from college to career to retirement, has been closely associated with the land and all of my relatives there. As for fish, and nets, and water, my first job as a fisheries biologist took me high into the land of the Mokolumne (fish net people) a high Sierra branch of the larger Miwok nation. Human concepts (and nonsense) dissolve in this water, but nets and even pole and line and hook are useful if one wishes to eat.