Josh P
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- United States, Canada
Having recently moved, the (seemingly never ending) task of unpacking, sorting, and arranging of "stuff" is upon me. For the time being*, I have the relatively uninhibited freedom of bachelor residence interior, shall we say, "decorating". Plenty of books are still in storage, but I've been thinking about all the other items that end up on the shelves and around them...
No, I don't have fantastic bronze sculptures of kudu and buffalo, or commissioned oil paintings of classic game scenes. I do have earth from meaningful places I've visited and hunted, and rocks from peaks and fields I've traveled, with and without lethal projectiles in hand. There's even a portion of long ago petrified corral that sat for untold years on land my family has farmed for generations...in a land locked state. That's my favorite place for whitetail, by the way.
There's unimpressive shed finds that remind me of the ranches I worked right after college.
Do I have a real Maasai spear to poke lions with and prove my manliness? Nope. A great friend did however gift me with a tastful decoration after he peaked Mt Kilimanjaro for charity, and it reminds me of his quality and our friendship.
Along with other trinkets, and plants I haven't managed to kill yet, I've got plenty of "stuff" that reminds me of people and places I care about, experiences and memories of adventures, and reminders of things to repeat and avoid in the future.
Maps! Wonderful reminders of past hunts, they also inspire the imagination for the future. Everyone should have (more) maps!
So, it doesn't matter to me if you're on the tin end, the gold end, or somewhere in the middle with the rest of us, I find it fascinating to see what others adorn their shelves and spaces with as it pertains to reminders of adventures and fellow adventurers. If you haven't been featured in a hardbound printing of Trophy Rooms, feel free to share your own bookshelves, etc.
*Not 15min after posting, she swings by, and says on her way out, still in the doorway, "I think you should do X with Y furniture, and I like the lamp how it was before." A glorious 15min it was!
No, I don't have fantastic bronze sculptures of kudu and buffalo, or commissioned oil paintings of classic game scenes. I do have earth from meaningful places I've visited and hunted, and rocks from peaks and fields I've traveled, with and without lethal projectiles in hand. There's even a portion of long ago petrified corral that sat for untold years on land my family has farmed for generations...in a land locked state. That's my favorite place for whitetail, by the way.
There's unimpressive shed finds that remind me of the ranches I worked right after college.
Do I have a real Maasai spear to poke lions with and prove my manliness? Nope. A great friend did however gift me with a tastful decoration after he peaked Mt Kilimanjaro for charity, and it reminds me of his quality and our friendship.
Along with other trinkets, and plants I haven't managed to kill yet, I've got plenty of "stuff" that reminds me of people and places I care about, experiences and memories of adventures, and reminders of things to repeat and avoid in the future.
Maps! Wonderful reminders of past hunts, they also inspire the imagination for the future. Everyone should have (more) maps!
So, it doesn't matter to me if you're on the tin end, the gold end, or somewhere in the middle with the rest of us, I find it fascinating to see what others adorn their shelves and spaces with as it pertains to reminders of adventures and fellow adventurers. If you haven't been featured in a hardbound printing of Trophy Rooms, feel free to share your own bookshelves, etc.
*Not 15min after posting, she swings by, and says on her way out, still in the doorway, "I think you should do X with Y furniture, and I like the lamp how it was before." A glorious 15min it was!
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BTW, I love the waterfowl mounts. 
