Welcome to this country life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves.

I'm Coon hunting to trotlining and just general country living.

I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences and life lessons.

This country life is presented by Case Knives on Meat Eat Eater's Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast the airways have to offer.

All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate.

I've got some stories to share.

Letting go.

Life lessons arrive in various vessels.

During our natural maturation and understanding of the world around us,

we advance in knowledge of the things in our environments incrementally,

a little bit at a time, allowing us to see and experience the real world in advancing degrees of complexity. It's how we learn the good in the world and the harsh

realities of the same space. This first story is a prime example of what can happen when you

least expect it. It's a discussion as mentors a This first story is a prime example of what can happen when you least expected.

It's a discussion as mentors a responsibility to make our young ones no parents can't

prepare them for everything. And when they're out of our reach, they have to be prepared

for anything. It's a little heavy, but I think it's important.

And we'll finish up with a celebration, but before we do, I'm going to tell you this story.

This one comes from Ken Nisley.

Ken's from New Holland, Pennsylvania, and he shared the following story.

I think it says a lot on many different levels, but I'm going to let you decide for yourself

what it all says without any bias from me to begin with.

So in Ken's words in my voice, here we go. Sometimes in life it feels like

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