Photo by Bill Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper was among the hundreds of friends who gathered Thursday at Holy Wisdom to honor the life of Dan Wisniewski, who died last year. Dan was an exceptional man of limitless accomplishments, and a trout fishing companion to many, including the keeper and Harry Peterson who was also at the memorial.
Given the Holy Wisdom setting, the keeper was mightily moved toward a confession that, once after Harry disclosed a secret trout spot to the keeper—swearing him to non-disclosure, the keeper shared the spot’s location with Dan, with Dan’s full knowledge that doing so meant the keeper was violating the sanctity of that most sacred of trout fishing secret-spot rules, making Dan, in a sense, an accomplice. Among all the many things said about Dan Thursday, there is that.
With Harry among those at the memorial event it would have been the perfect occasion and setting for the keeper to unburden himself of guilt and confess his trout fishing transgression.
He was not up to it, but now takes this opportunity to do so from the cover of this remote internet confession booth.
You were a helluva guy, Dan, and Harry and I are among the many who join Fran in missing you.
