I just finished Donald Miller's, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years. It was a good read, and I recommend it. Somewhere in that book he wrote of the value of the "setting" of our life's story. As when we remember scenes from a movie, we may not remember what was being spoken, but we do remember the scene. The main point of this portion of Miller's book is that it is important to get out of the routine settings of our life to make memories. Setting is important.
With that in mind, I took Michael deer hunting last weekend. I hardly ever hunt...only when someone makes the opportunity available and I can make the time. Michael has never been hunting. We went and had a great time sitting in the stand together. I didn't care if we didn't even see a deer. The experience was the goal.
But then we did see a deer (a nice 5 point) and "we" shot it. Our setting moved from the stand into the woods where we found him dead. We drug him out, harvested the meat, and took his head home. Then our setting changed again to the back yard, where we boiled the deer head, preparing a "European skull mount".
All of this has been a great scene that we'll never forget. Good times...
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