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John Harbison "Dancing on the Edge"

July 07, 2020 Angela Burton, Host Season 1 Episode 4
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John Harbison "Dancing on the Edge"
Show Notes

John Harbison is a prolific reader, writer and watcher of birds, a watcher of all things nature. He writes nearly every day, as he believes that writing is therapeutic and a way to capture his legacy for his daughters. In "Dancing on the Edge", he writes about a moment that shifted beneath him, a moment with the woman who would later become his wife: "I thought then, and I still do, that there is nothing more graceful and beautiful as a woman casting a fly rod; it's piscatorial ballet..."