Sink or Swim

Or tread water, or float randomly while swallowing microbes that will probably give you the runs.

Photo by Author in canoe while breathing heavily before tucking phone away.

Perched on the seat of the canoe, at a full stop in the shore’s sand, I mentally began operation extract. A mere few seconds later, the canoe tipped and I was dipped into the water like a large cone into a bowl of sprinkles.