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– So you’ll need a paddle – OK – but where’s the canoe?

It was the week before our trip to Israel to film the 2008 WCGIP gathering of indigenous peoples, when I received a phone call from an old friend of ours Phil Jones, he was calling from Canmore Canada, our plan was to travel to the gathering together, however due to a family bereavement he had to cancel the trip, as we concluded our conversation he puzzlingly encouraged me to take a canoe paddle to the gathering ….I compliantly replied “O”ok!

Canoe paddle? –his request didn’t register at all - not until the following day, when I was merrilly house painting, up and down the paint brush went - my mind quicl;y drifting into a zoned out state - when suddenly I was reminded of a song I`d penned a few years earlier entitled “Fishing in the Deep” - the imagery was of a bunch of guys carrying paddles - running excitedly across the Galilean shoreline -then diving into the awaiting boats to go fishing in the deep with skipper Jesus! This sudden gust of inspiration had me dropping my paint brush and Googling the net - in search of “The Idiots guide to making canoe paddles - that was it - we too were off on a brand new journey - into the unknown - Fishing in the Deep!

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