GReat story. When I was twelve my best friend and I earned enough money to buy a 8x12 Army Surplus tent. His home joined a large farm. We decided to camp for two weeks without going into his home. Real pioneers and deplorers. We had the tent full of stuff to keep us alive for fourteen days. We lasted four.
I live in Livermore falls Maine and have camped in the wilds of Moosehead but only for 5 days in the spring. I was amazed with this story and tip my hat to that generation, this is the best wildlife story I have ever heard!
Great book! Couple a tough old boys! Had an uncle lived at moosehead lake. He was bush/commercial pilot up there after the war. Wound up getting killed in a commercial flight that went down up that way. Think they say it was one of the biggest catastrophes to take place in that part of the country when it took place.
I enjoyed this audiobook of an area I've flown and explored in my youth. I live in western me. My uncle had a camp to use in Rockwood. We would take his old school bus from Rockwood in to the golden road and beyond with 4wd vehicles. Miss old uncle Artie.
I'm from Maine and used to go hunting moose and trapping fisher, pine marten, beaver, mink, otter and bobcat with my dad. So this is all very familiar! It's fun hearing familiar place names too, we visited Mt Kineo once and been to Greenville a few times.
I'm 32 and I went trapping with my dad as a little girl and teenager. So 20 years ago give or take. Yes, my dad would sell the pelts and he still traps and sells them. Moose meat is good but it's a little tougher than beef and has to be cooked for longer. I think the taste is pretty comparable to beef I never really tasted a huge difference. I'll put it this way too, I think that deer meat tastes like poop so moose meat is definitely superior to my mind.@@kissedbysun2517
The reader is like a perfect mix of an Indian and Gene Simmons!!! Awesome! FYI; if you know anything about Gene, you can envision him taking on some side hustle. In all seriousness, I can’t imagine a better narrator for this fine book.
To all those who are causing suffering in this world, directly or indirectly: Heed your dreams at night, those nightmares that you most assuredly are having are imploring you to change -before it’s too late… The quality of our dreams is both a reflection of our thoughts and actions as well as a general foreshadowing of the fate of our souls in the next life...A nightly, temporary karma that beckons us to change - for the good - so as to avoid a more permanent karma❤️🔥 Beauty(🌷)+Complexity(🌎) =Intent(❤️) The Figure 8 Analogy: An analogy on life, death, the dream-state and the symbolism intertwined within the human experience. We human beings are not traveling in the abstract motion of a straight line towards death (for instance, the numerical straight line of say 1-89). Instead, we are moving in the motion of a figure 8. The Figure 8 is a natural repeating pattern that is divided into two halves and is thus the perfect symbol to represent the human life cycle and our two primary states of existence that we are continuously moving in and out of -the Awake state and the Dream state. When we awake from sleep we come full circle to when we fall back asleep (represented by the bottom half of the figure 8 )and when we go into the dream state we come full circle to when we awake from the dream state (represented by the top half of the figure 8 ). Upon death; the figure 8 of life untwines, but it’s not the body untwining from the mind that this analogy represents. It's two states of mind untwining to form a larger state of mind (8-0)… Because the awake state is really a state -of mind with our body's physical reality "consciously" intertwined, and the dream-state is also a state of mind with our body's physical reality "subconsciously" intertwined. Therefore; upon death, these two states of mind untwine to form a “larger” state of mind. A state that has all the potentialities of the dream-world (flying, telepathy, psychokinesis, etc) combined with all the actualities of the awake world(nature, form, bonds, etc). This I refer to as the transitional analogy. While conceiving The Figure 8 Analogy, I realized life and death must be perceived -from one point of view- as seperate entities(the transitional analogy(8-0), but must also be perceived -from another point of view- as inseparable entities(the symbolic analogy👇), both of which are ultimately linked by the dream-state. The “Symbolic Analogy” consists of the untwined figure 8 of life/the “circle of death” ( O ) abstractly overlapping the ‘circle of life’ (Earth(🌎)with the overlapping area representing the dreamstate-like the common area in a Venn Diagram-and implies that the dream state is just as much a part of life as is of death (by which explains precognitive dreams, prodromal dreams, "visitations" by deceased relatives, etc) for the dream-state has a foothold in the afterlife; and is based on the premise that “while our body sleeps our dream state symbolically represents the state that awaits upon our body's ultimate rest.” In other words, while we are lying down and sleeping/dreaming, this natural process symbolizes where we go when we're ultimately lying down/dead -to a place like our dream-state...A state "of mind” with our body's physical form+Earthly bonds eternally engrained and intertwined. ~8~
