While I was filming and photographing in Galena, Ohio, for the DelawareOH365.com piece on the pier, I stumbled across this.
It is probably a fence section that was washed out during a previous high-water moment of the Hoover Reservoir. But, my imagination quickly took me back to Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Then thinking about Twain always brings back a quote from his auto-biography that I’ve used often in my life:
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities which we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are the men who do things which we recognize with regret and sometimes with a secret shame that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.
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