That was an incredible read and, I daresay, the most sweet thing I have read in a long time. Really makes you question what we as individuals and as a society take for granted. Your grandfather sounded like a very interesting man.
Thank you for sharing.
He certainly lived and loved passionately. But that life was not for the squeamish. One story describes how magpies pick at the sores on a burro’s back and can kill the animal. So explosives inserted into the captured bird’s mouth, and the bird sent back to the tree with the flock seemed to solve the problem for him. YUCK!!!!!!!