By Stu Whitley
Bio
This is the fourth in a four-part series.
During his entire life, my father has adhered to a habit of
truth—‘truth’ in that he has not been afraid to question the ‘why’ of a
thing. This included the way in which the past influences the future,
and his determination to manage events to the extent that it has been
possible.
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it,” he’d say.[
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By Stu WhitleyBio
It is inevitable that the pressures of the past that are felt by the
present have to be contained in some sort of manageable context. Life
must be worth living. Gazing upward to the crumbling decks of
those forlorn leviathans from my canoe on the Yukon River, I wondered
about the men who worked those paddlewheel steamers. Back-breaking work
it must have been to feed those enormous furnaces. Even the ship’s
wheel needed to be six feet across to achieve the mechanical advantage
necessary to turn the fat twin rudders under the paddlewheel. It must
have required Herculean effort to avoid the snags and bars of the Yukon
River. Did these men too end their hard lives as empty relics, used up,
discarded on the strand as life’s indifferent perpetual current
continued to flow by?[
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