profound possibilities of human endurance

Some Kalahari tribespeople have forged an utterly remarkable and inspiring relationship between human endurance and spiritual hunting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52k6FdApB94

For background information on "persistence hunting:"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

Summer training

Esme and Dillon in training. Esme is 16 months old.

"It accomplishes nothing to ask the poem to come to us. We must try to make the pilgrimage to the poem."

-Robert Bringhurst discussing classical Haida oral narrative poems in
A Story as Sharp as a Knife.