EVERYDAY BUSHCRAFT

Sometimes life just doesn’t go our way. You make a plan. It falls apart. You try another way. That doesn’t work either. Then another problem lands on top of the first one, and suddenly you’re standing there thinking: “I honestly don’t know what to do next.” That’s when I try to come back to something we teach at Everyday Bushcraft: You don’t have to solve everything. You just have to work out the next thing you can do. In the bush, when things go wrong, running around trying

Have you ever started a fire with a magnifying glass? It seems almost like magic. You hold a simple piece of glass between the sun and a piece of tinder. At first, nothing happens. Sunlight is everywhere—on your hands, on the ground, on the trees, on the tinder—but nothing is burning. Then you adjust the lens. The scattered sunlight begins to concentrate into one tiny, intensely bright point. You hold it there. A little smoke appears. You resist the temptation to move it arou