Note to National Geographic

“I was thrilled at your boldness in showing, on the October magazine cover, the wild enthusiasm of five women who are addressing  the magnificence before them in an aptly personal way.   I have found that it is the same raw encounter that nature often invites, and there is no better response.   I hope that everyone has the thrill some day of standing naked on the end of a dock, facing the rising sun.    I am sad for anyone who has not yet yielded to the watery embrace of skinny dipping. ………Barry Schade”