Paddling Song: One Great Thing

ONE GREAT THING

And I think over and over again,

of when, with a North wind

I drifted in my kayak along the Great River

and thought I was in danger.

My fears,

those small ones

that I though so big

for all the vital things

I had to get and to reach.

And yet, there is only

One Great Thing

the only thing:

to live and to see,

on journeys, in camps, and at home

the great day that dawns

and the light that fills the world.

                                                         - Copper Tribe Inuit Song.