Ready for anything: 5 things my grandfather carried
6 min readNov 10, 2020
My grandfather was a man with a knife. That may bring to mind an image of a fearful man slashing the world around him to protect himself, but that was the opposite of my grandfather. The knife did not define him. His life defined the appropriate use of the knife.
Some people carry weapons because they’re insecure. They feel safer knowing they can wield something dangerous in…