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>I've just returned from my annual pilgrimage to the >altar of the trout at Cherokee NC. Every year, long >about Halloween, I begin to feel the burdens of >responsibility, husbandry and citizenship start to >over charge my psychic batteries and I begin planning >my escape to the rivers and streams of the mountains. >Now, some folks go to the coast and up the sand and >sun to find their balance, but I have an aversion to >getting sand in my creases and cracks. Only by >sticking my legs into cold running water can I find my >center. > >While I can get away to the mountains to fish just >about anytime of the year, it's only in the spring >that I find real peace. Each April for the past 15 >years my son-in-law, one of his life-long friends and >I have spent a week fishing on the Cherokee >Reservation. Before that, I made the trip with a >couple of nephews. Near as I can figure, I began the >tradition in 1972. Forty years of cheap therapy. I >hope I survive long enough to take my grandsons >along--sort of initiating a continuance of the >tradition. I'd wager that others have a stress >management technique they practice regularly. Isn't it >a blessing when you can discover what makes you happy >early enough in life to enjoy it throughout life?

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