Chip!!!! Hey hey hey I resemble that remark! LOL

How do the car talk guys say it......
And even though designers cringe everytime I say "Hey I'm gonna build your boat....Maniacal laugh

Yeah Chip your right there is a tendancy to over romatize the aboriginal cultures. Forget there strengths and issues look more like ours even now. And then you find a stomne tool... and ponder its owner......Still the ruggedness the spirituality of connectedness of what is around. Mythologies and legends that continue to WOW! I think in the end the romatisim around aboriginal existance is in part because somewhere in all of us there exists the aborigine who looks up into the Northern lights and knows there is a message in it for us to big to comprehend.

Weather Cheif Seattle really said it or not belies the point that what is quoted was wisdom. I think all wisdoms are captured in mythologies.

FOr me I guess part of it is that in that part of life when a boy goes off to be a man. I went off to learn manhood in the company of a culture that has no word for I, that is many things I never can be, but admire, that combines a stoic toughness with laughter in abundances that should not be in a cold and lonely place. It was an incredible journey that perhaps I never came all the way back from.

It is OK to see any culture in its complexity. But when looking at what that way of being means....Well the transformation figures are not just in the boat.
In the builder too.

Hmnnn are all boats autobiographical. I think I'll start looking at all of you poster's boat picture postings with a much more fruedian eye....LOL

!RUSS