1976, the American rock band, Blue Oyster Cult released an album called, “Agents of fortune”. (Don’t fear) the Reaper, immediately became a huge hit. Although the lyrics were up for debate, the writer and singer, Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser, claims the song is about eternal love and the inevitability of death. When I first heard the song years ago, I can’t honestly say as I gave it much thought. I liked it the moment I heard it but there wasn’t anything that resonated with me.

Until now.

The man who raised me was handicapped. So when it came to doing outdoor stuff my opportunities were limited. Until I met Kurt Riemer. Kurt was my boss at a place I worked at. I was 16 when I started working for him part time. A few years passed and I was hired on at that place full time. We became good friends and he invited me Elk hunting with him and his boy, Keenan. I had never been Elk hunting before, let alone been taken into the type of woods he had taken us. He took us high up into the Cascade mountain range to a place with a name I could barely pronounce. I’d never seen anything like it. Never experienced anything like it; and Kurt had a way about hunting that I learned later was a bit unique.