I agree about showing kids the simple beauty life can offer. They need balance and they will get all of the other shit as they go along. The things that are important to me now were not important as a kid but I cherish the memories of me learning these things more than anything else. Learning to hunt and fish, canoeing, foraging for wild foods, gardening for not so wild foods, sitting and watching a doe teach her fawn to drink from a pond. Those are the things that I understand as life now and I wish I appreciated them more as a young boy.

Fun fact: That Old Town Tripper in your second photo is the canoe I almost died in that I spoke about in my video that you commented on. I bought it second-hand from the widow of a man who bought it to bond with his son because the kid didn't like anything but video games and after he passed she kept the canoe in the barn for so many years I couldn't quite get a shine on it because of the dust and pigeon turds. I paid $750 for it and lost it on the second voyage. I hope it made it to the Northwest Territories and some kid found it because that was where I wanted to take it and if a kid found a canoe that beautiful, they would surely use it.