Prairie Prowler wrote: [quote=wildschwein]Holy smokes Prowler! You sure do move fast. 😀
I’ve been thinking about this, what you wrote, Justin, for a couple days now.
I have always had a deep spiritual connection with the place I live in. Without this prairie, I would not exist.
I first touched a bow in February of this year, made a batch of arrows a month later, bought my recurve 3 1/2 months ago. Fact is, archery, well…awakened something in me. At the risk of sounding cheesy, it’s like a puzzle has been solved that I didn’t know existed – or a piece that I didn’t know was missing has fit into place. Let me be clear, none of this is to say that I am “better than thou”. It’s just that archery, and hunting in general, has profoundly impacted my life and family’s life. I only started hunting 10 months ago. A friend gave me an old .270 last fall, another friend taught me to butcher, and I wound up putting 4 deer on the table.
For me, hunting is akin to heating with wood.
Hunting, like cutting firewood, allows me to provide for my family’s primary physical needs. The bow, like the maul, is a physical tool that provides a spiritual connection to the land we rely upon. Archery feeds us both physically and spiritually. It’s like it was there all along…I just didn’t recognize it.
-Ben
Not cheesy to me Ben. When we stop thinking we are just humans searching for a spiritual experience and start realizing we are really a spirit having a temporary human experience that we see how broadly connected we are to everything.
