Standing Point Newsletter

Here’s why a hunting journal matters: birds hunters become nostalgic five minutes after their first hunt. Within a few seasons the condition is nearly a disorder. The world whirls around, hurling us into an unknown future, while we look back into a mist-tinted memory of a hazy afternoon when the points were intense, the shooting…

The whole point of a guided quail hunt is that you’re supposed to be working with a professional, right? Quail hunting is supposed to be fun, right? And quail hunting Mississippi … well that should be more than fun, that’s supposed to be heaven on earth. You think of the experience creating funny stories from…

As time moves forward, and our lives take shape as the sum of the choices we’ve made, new and interesting opportunities begin to reveal themselves. At times these are welcome revelations. Some times they are immediate tragedies that smooth out into unforeseen opportunities. Oftentimes, our lives simply become the best we can make of them,…