for The Boat by Aaron Fowler and Peter Mader
We all enter this life alone, in a boat of our own. We all wonder – just how big is this ocean? Where will it take me? What will I need along the way? And, most importantly, who will join me?
We spend a lifetime answering these questions. Sometimes, amazing friends join us. When they do, we are blessed by their friendship and we are enriched by their past and their stories. Sometimes, those friends find a different journey, and they leave us. When that happens, we still look for them in the clouds and in the wind.
In this new book, there are friends on every page. When we finally set off to sail the world, there will be new friends on every shore. In this book, a simple song ties all the travelers together. As we go forward, we are learning the songs that will tie us, all of us, the past us and the future us, into a simple, seaworthy craft hewn of the rough timber of the heart, trimmed out with the permanence of teak, caulked and sealed with pure human, and canine, love.