[MD] is-ness

[Heather Perella]

    Leaves, nuts, and blood...


is-ness,
SA



     [Marsha]
> Such knowledge!  How cool are you!!!

     [Ron] 
> Marsha
> I'm not cool, SA asked.
> Trying to teach my children what was taught to me. I
> think it is
> important
> To pass on survival skills and the appreciation of
> natures bounty.
> They had fun, I passed on some knowledge. My oldest
> is on a nut
> Jag and feels empowered being able to provide food
> for the family,
> I try to encourage this.
> 
> I remember my father showing me while we were
> tracking one evening.
> We were way out into the woods, My dad had hit a
> buck and the blood
> Trail stopped and it was getting dark. I started a
> fire while dad made a
> 
> Lean-to. He asked me to fetch some water with an old
> mess kit he always
> Kept with him. He made sassafras tea with some root
> he pulled before 
> it got too dark and then boiled some acorns, he said
> it would be enough
> to keep our stomachs from growling in the morning.
> His mind was fixed
> on that wounded buck. He did not like the fact it
> was not a clean kill.
> It was near noon the next day when we found it.
> Never would have 
> If we went home and gave up the trail.
> 
> You may find this odd but this time of year always
> reminds me of
> tracking
> Sign Among the colored leaves.
> 
> Leaves nuts and blood...when I think of it now and
> in relation to our
> changing social norms it seems archaic and odd.


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