It is December 29 and I am enjoying the last hour of a kayak trip on the Weeki Wachee River, a beautiful spring-fed river which flows into the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida.  As I glide through the crystal clear water which runs through a cathedral of trees, I turn my kayak around and look backwards at where I had been while continuing to drift downstream.

I am immediately struck by how different where I have been looks compared to what it looked like as I passed through with a focus forward.  A different perspective changes how it all …

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