The Day the Forest Laughed Back
There are days when nature stops being a postcard and becomes a mirror, one that shows us exactly who we are, with all our pride, blunders, and unpolished truth. In Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs by William J. Harris, such moments fill the pages like old campfire smoke, thick with memory, humor, and humility. Harris writes not just about the hunts, the catches, or the trophies, but about the conversations between man and wilderness. And sometimes, in that conversation, the forest gets the last laugh. When Confidence Meets Consequence It began, as many of the best stories do, with confidence, a feeling that you know the rules of the game. You study the map, clean the rifle, check the wind, and step into the forest, certain that experience will bend the day in your favor. But nature, as Harris reminds us through decades of lived adventure, never signs that contract. It waits quietly, patient as stone, ready to remind even the seasoned explorer that control is an illusion. ...