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Perusings With The Padre

Don Ingle a.k.a.

The Padre, a.k.a. Fr. Don, is Don Ingle, an award winning outdoor writer For the Traverse City Record-Eagle and editor of Michigan Forests. Don is a founding member of the Trout Bum Bar-B-Q, and also founded the Church of the Significant Rise Form(COTSRF), a non-religious order of flyfishers >grin< whose motto is "Sic Semper via Hexagenia Possessius" (Thus always possessed by the Hexagenia).

Don and wife Jean live in Baldwin near the Pere Marquette, sharing their home with Socrates, a 90-pound red Labrador retriever who fetches downed grouse for Don on those rare occasions when he hits one.  The Padre is a regular contributor to these pages in both words and cartoons.

The Padre Writes To His Outdoor Teacher On A Special Year To Remember
Time To Chase Rainbows
Bob Smock, Sr. - An AuSable Fly Tying Legend Passes
High Flying Raptors & the Lasting Value of Friendship
The Padre's Homily on Seeing is Believing
The COTSRF Vestry Ponders the Matter of Improvisation
Humility
The Padre's Homily On Winter Survival
Driving The Serpent Back Into The Garden of Eden
The Padre's COTSRF Vestry Report
Keep An Eye On Things In Life
Honor Thy Father (But Keep An Eye On His Friends)
Of Groundhogs & Hyperbole
The Padre's Winter Homily: Memories Will Carry You 'Til Trout Look Up
Confession Is Good For The Soul....Sometimes!