LIFE IS FRAGILE - BOURDAIN

[SqueeDAB]

I’ve lost a few friends to suicide. At their funerals, I was fascinated by how many people were suddenly experts on life and death.

We lost a few brothers here over the years.

I’ve worked so many death scenes they all bleed together. I even managed to prevent a few; other times, I got there 10 seconds too late, heard the pop, saw the flash, and saw blood and grey matter spray down a dashboard.

Sometime I thought the person was an asshole. At other times, I “got it”.
Sometimes, it can be selfish. Sometimes, it hurts knowing that someone you loved opted out early because of a situation that might have been overcome. At other times…who’d want to spend months in agonizing physical pain, bankrupting the family to get a few extra months? Maybe.

There’s something to be said about making your death your last active decision (Dostoevsky said it much better than I can).

Bourdain is one of those guys who’s death left the world with a little less color.

And if you have a feeling about a friend, family member, talk to them. Sometimes a person knowing that another wants him to be alive is all that keeps a person from going over that ledge.

[WraithWolf]

Bourdain really sparked my love of world foods. Him and Andrew Zimmern with Bizarre Foods. I keep my Discovery+ Subscription to keep most of Bourdain's Excellent No Reservations Show, as well as Zimmern's many travel/cooking shows. Live Humbly, Share Heartedly, Learn Humongous. Watching Zimmern's interview on FOX when Bourdain passed was heartbreaking. They were such great friends. Both were and are ready to push their comfort zone to get food, and both support firearms, even using some unconventional arms to hunt with on shows. Zimmern hunted with an SBS overseas, Bourdain went so far as to grill out with JMAC Customs when CNN when pushing alot of Gun Control BS, to show people how awesome AK's can be, while enjoying a meal with cool people they all foraged/hunted together.

“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”
“No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.”
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

“I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure”
(Eat Salo, Fish and Cut Raw Sushi, Forage for Amanita Muscaria Mushrooms and embrace your Viking Roots and great sleep)

“We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.”
(He had alot of personal issues in relationships due to his traveling from Family. This always was a red flag line from him to me, more so after the fact of his passing. Men and Women here, choose your partners carefully and make sure they always your rock no matter how far.)



If It Looks Good, Eat It. -Andrew Zimmern

[WraithWolf]

Loosing someone you know and love to suicide, theres no words. Reach out to those you think may be struggling. If a friend needs to talk, make time for them. People may be fighting harder to conceal signs of suicidal ideation than they are fighting to overcome them. If you bridge that gap with someone, they are more than likely to be honest with you if they trust you. You can then help build them up defenses that are easier to fight than tearing it all down. Be an open ear and welcoming arms to everyone you care about. Be each others rocks and fortresses when they have no one else.

[Gunstore Commando]

Forage for Amanita Muscaria Mushrooms

Guys, do me a favor -- unless you learned this stuff from your Grandma who spent her whole life foraging for mushrooms exactly where you are at right now, please don't eat Amanita mushrooms.