Tell ya what, folks… I’m having a heck of a week. I’ve been wanting to do a video all week, but dealing with some separate serious family issues, and on top of that, I’ve got some serious eye issue going on that has been progressively getting worse. Feels like some grit got in there and has just been progressively ripping my eyeball up more and more as the week goes on. It’ll be a miracle if I can get any video of myself this week without looking like Quasimodo.
Hang in with me! I’ll get through it, and I hope y’all will be there on the other side!
Gettin’ outta the glorious rain in the glorious backcountry with my glorious dog
I found this video interesting as it relates to conversations we have about the true nature of things, what is really important and what is not, and how little importance some things have depending on the needs of the moment.
For example, this guy and his fellow soldiers, while being shot at would just dump their blankets - the blankets were totally unimportant to the immediate goal of staying alive. This meant later suffering, but at least they were alive.
I think about this sort of thing all the time when seeing guys building elaborate, beautiful shelters in the woods. When you’re hungry and lost, or simply traveling through the wilderness, nobody is going to care about building an elaborate shelter. You’re only going to care about conserving energy and using energy for only things that are absolutely necessary in any given moment.
This means sleeping under a rock outcrop, or a fallen tree, or just trying to get through the night under your sweater and some leaves you scrounge ...
