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Quote I'm pondering -

“You don’t hunt deer because you love them. You love them as a result of hunting them.” - Jameson Parker

Over the past week, I've been reading In the Company of Bears: What Black Bears Taught Me About Intelligence and Intuition. I'm falling more and more in love with these creatures as I learn about them. They communicate hierarchies and family dynamics in a complex way. In one example, the author found a grandmother bear adopt a child that the mother could not attend to properly. They negotiated adoption (and the complex rules associated with it) over one night of communication. Amazing to read about. I will be hunting a black bear in Montana in one month.

Successful hunting requires deep empathy. To achieve a kill, I must insert myself in the mind of my prey. I must know his needs, understand her fears, and how the external...