Paddle

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

~Katharine Hepburn

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My parents used to warn me a lot to be careful because if I made bad choices I would be "up a crick without a paddle." That never once happened to me. I have never been "up a crick without a paddle." That's some good parenting there. Or - more accurately - that's some really good listening on my part.