A Birthday Bowdrill 🐾❤️

Birthday Bowdrill 🐾❤️
It’s late and I know this won’t mean much to most people but if I’m being honest with myself, this was healing for me. And I truly want to be vulnerable.
Today was hard…..
Another year has now passed without my best friend and his birthday was today. All day long work and tasks kept me busy and distracted but as soon as the darkness came and the quiet crept in, I started remembering.
Each year instead of a cake, I would give him an ember. Some years he would sniff it and his puffs from his snout would blow it everywhere. One year it was raining and he came running by and when he stopped to shake the water off, it put the ember out. And as he got older, he was content to lay and watch me create his Birthday Ember. It always felt like he knew it just for him….
Everything about this video has significance. This was the very first knife I ever bought myself and got a bow drill with. This was the very first hand hold I had success with. This was a special bow I made to use his rope toy cordage with. And this was the first board I had consistent luck with. Fitting for such a special friend on a special day.
I miss him so much and everything he did for me. He was my absolute best friend and truly saved me from darkness. God used his unconditional love and joy for life to bring me back over and over and over and over. He gave me something to live for when nothing else seemed to.
I will continue this every year because it’s healing and be grateful by remembering how he helped keep a fire burning in me.
Love you Swamper…
🐾❤️🐾❤️

[@sparrow_bushcraft5307]

Happy bday 🥃🥃

[@TheBeardedBurton]

Thank you man