081313 #copperhead We've got more clothes on than we've had in weeks, and I still feel half naked, and it actually feels pretty good. I feel nut-brown and elastic after all these days of paddling and portaging and splashing around. I feel tight, alert, cohesive. As a matter of fact I don't think I've ever felt this physically whole. I feel young but capable—it's a golden moment, and I'm realizing it right now, and that makes it a platinum moment. Cause let's face it, most golden moments sneak past incognito and it's not until a year or a few or a decade has passed that you look back wistfully and say, yeah, I really had it going on back then, that was really where it was at. How often do you get to be aware of gold while living in it? It's like waking up in a dream, lucid dreaming, isn't that what they call it? And you know you can do whatever you want, *because it's your dream!*