Keeping Relevant Perspective And Priorities
Nov 1, 2015 9:25:51 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on Nov 1, 2015 9:25:51 GMT -5
h/t WRSA... The following article brought a smile to my face as I remembered my father gone now 8 years this November. He was a logger and a sometimes saw miller by trade who spent his early years on a NH farm during the Great Depression. He often remarked that he didn't know there was anything unusual about those times as farm life went on as always though he heard the grown up folks talk about the problems at hand. Thanks to my father's experiences and love of the outdoors my brothers, my sister and I learned many life skills because to my father they were perhaps the most important skills to know along with a strong work ethic. Tagging along long before we could carry a rifle we learned to hunt, fish and even to trap a little but we learned much more than that. We learned to garden, can, put root crops and other vegetables and fruits away in a root cellar. We put up ceramic crocks with pickles and sauerkraut. Even more important we learned the importance of taking the extra of what you produced and seeing that those truly in need did not go without especially the elderly in our neighborhood. The one lesson I always had trouble with was patience and to be honest I still struggle sometimes with that today but I am still working on it...
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Keeping Relevant Perspective And Priorities, And The Art Of Practicing Patience
I’ve been a hunter since I was a child, and no matter how good I’ve gotten at it over the years (if you don’t show progress, you aren’t really trying, are you?), I always have it pointed out to me by reality, that I still have things to work on. Regardless of whether I actually get what I’m hunting for, or I just go out and sit in or stalk through the woods for the morning or afternoon, a day sitting in the woods, enjoying God’s creation, beats any day sitting in an office, going to or being at work (unless that is your office, but relaxing as opposed to working is still pretty awesome). I went out Thursday morning for early muzzleloader season, hoping for the best, expecting the worst, but knowing that generally the “worst” is not getting anything, and it’s still better than most alternatives.
masondixontactical.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/keeping-relevant-perspective-and-priorities-and-the-art-of-practicing-patience/
Keeping Relevant Perspective And Priorities, And The Art Of Practicing Patience
I’ve been a hunter since I was a child, and no matter how good I’ve gotten at it over the years (if you don’t show progress, you aren’t really trying, are you?), I always have it pointed out to me by reality, that I still have things to work on. Regardless of whether I actually get what I’m hunting for, or I just go out and sit in or stalk through the woods for the morning or afternoon, a day sitting in the woods, enjoying God’s creation, beats any day sitting in an office, going to or being at work (unless that is your office, but relaxing as opposed to working is still pretty awesome). I went out Thursday morning for early muzzleloader season, hoping for the best, expecting the worst, but knowing that generally the “worst” is not getting anything, and it’s still better than most alternatives.