Today is opening day of the 2018 Michigan firearms deer season. I wish all hunters a safe and successful season!
One of my favorite pieces of writing is about deer hunting (and life). The following passage is from the book Hunting from Home: A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains by Christopher Camuto (ISBN 978-0393049152).
One November the hunter will not be in the woods and neither the deer nor the woods nor the wind will know or mark the difference his absence makes. If you hunt, and if you have taken your modest share of game--not as trophies but as food for your table--then you will understand the beauty in the thought of that unmarked difference in the woods. Folks who are on their way to heaven or some other imagined paradise where the true cost of living does not have to be paid won't understand or accept this. But I am not trying to get to heaven. I am trying to get to earth.
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