Simply Simple Things

     I’ve been contemplating the significance of importance…. As in what’s really important….in this life, to me.  I’ve come to settle on these few “things”.  Simple things:

Holding my grandfather’s tools and wondering who will care for them when I’m gone.

A new Isabey #7 Sable brush

The little mesquite table Chris McLarry gave me

The feel of a new Nicholson mill file

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Cast Iron cookware

The sound of Sitka spruce arrows out of a traditional bow

Enstrom’s Toffee

Splitting mesquite with a maul

Re-reading Plummer’s “Nathan”

Kimber 45’s

Joel Ostling Etchings

Wood burning stoves

Tom Ford cologne

Jeannie’s Christmas Fudge

Dietz Lanterns

Leafless oaks against a winter sky

Tom McGuane books

Old Creels

Re-runs of Northern Exposure

Thunderstorms

International Artist Magazine

Wetterling Hatchets

My Filson shooting coat

A flask full of Cat Daddy

The way a Randall knife fills your hand

Quattro, my Granny Dog

My 1973 Vietnam Era Benrus watch (which I won on a bet on the skeet field)

Cooking outdoors

Granny dogs, “Old Men”, and puppies

Wondering who will care for my grandfather’s tools. 

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