Stream swimming

“Wouldn’t it be nice… if I was a Kokanee Salmon, swimming up the Wallowa River in Northeast Oregon? I feel the cool rushing current against my cold scales, and instinctively swim upstream. I feel a heaviness in my belly, and instinctively keep watch for a place in the gravel to lay the roe… my salmon eggs.

Wouldn’t it be nice… if, as a human being, I relied on instinct. Followed my gut. Felt the current…”