r/SaultSteMarie

Met someone from the Soo in Brugge last week and as a result I couldn't stop thinking about Mr Leishman. He was my grade 8 teacher at Aweres. He organized a fishing tournament for our class at John Island that year, which is one of my fondest childhood memories. He was a major influence for me.

I caught my first brook trout and shot my first duck, a drake wood duck from a canoe in the Root River.

I got a tattoo the other day in Antwerp from an Italian man I immediately trusted. We shot the shit and listened to the Scorpions and Thin Lizzy while he worked. @ironchild.tattoo

To everyone who I went to school, played ball, hitch hiked, buzzbombed for pinks, skied, dirt biked, bush-partied, piled in for Taco Bell runs, shared beers with at every bar in town using the worst fake ids ever, worked, snowmachined, cruisied around, listened to metal, swam, snuck into the Dunn on their picture day identifying as members of the Tragically Hip, went hunting, watched Chris Simon and Denny Lambert play, smelted at midnight and canoed with.....

Thank you so much, this tattoo reminds me of all of you.

Love you guys.