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River Jordan
Dec 21, 20232 min read
All Roads Lead Home
These days. I relive all the miles I’ve traveled going home again. Places I’ve traveled from like South Florida down Everglades way....
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River Jordan
Dec 21, 20232 min read
Christmas Past
These days. I miss the used to be. The way back when. I miss my Mother bringing in the mail, pouring her tenth cup of coffee, sitting...
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River Jordan
Dec 8, 20231 min read
The Lushness of Summer Desire
These days. Wanting everything to hit just so. Like that moment a song comes on the radio and you sing your heart out cause of that pent...
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River Jordan
Nov 29, 20231 min read
The Broken Place
These days. I am no longer haunted half as much by the broken places in my life. Riffs and shifts. Fields planted with promise. Not a...
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River Jordan
Nov 29, 20232 min read
Divine Dreams and Messages from beyond
These days. My Grandmother and all that she was to me is close at hand. Never more than today when I think of how many years we gathered...
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River Jordan
Nov 29, 20232 min read
Long Gone but Not Forgotten
These days. I think of dead people. A lot. Getting older, friends and family going on and leaving me behind. Here to remember, hold...
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River Jordan
Nov 29, 20231 min read
When Time Slows to a Stop
These days. How they slip beneath my feet. Some feeling sturdy like walking on ancient rocks. Others, suddenly, without warning, like the...
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River Jordan
Nov 29, 20232 min read
Old School Survival
These days. I find strange comfort in the simple things. A cast iron pan. A stocked woodpile of seasoned oak. A fireplace or a woodstove...
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River Jordan
Nov 29, 20232 min read
Rainy Day Magic
These days. It’s raining in North Carolina. A November kind of rain where the temps drop ‘bout 30 degrees overnight. Where the sky stays...
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River Jordan
Nov 29, 20232 min read
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
These days. Memories stir, rise, and fall of their own free will. This one comes to the surface, catches flight. This night you head down...
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River Jordan
Nov 29, 20232 min read
Laughter by Divine Design
These days. There are some things that have never been more precious. I woke up this morning thinking of my mother and her wicked sense...
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River Jordan
Nov 29, 20233 min read
The Roads We Travel
These days. I have snow on my mind. I'm in the midst of a novel set in the 1930's and it is snowing on the mountain. It's like stepping...
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River Jordan
Oct 30, 20231 min read
The Legacy We Leave
These days. I am thinking of the word legacy. Of the weight of it and all it means. The way legacy colors all the days of our lives but...
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River Jordan
Oct 30, 20232 min read
Finding Stillness
These days. I find I need stillness more than I ever have. And that it is harder to find, to corral the noise running rampant in my mind....
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River Jordan
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Catching light and shadow
These days. I am watching dappled sunlight like I have just been born. Like there are filters in this world, soft, shifting patterns I...
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River Jordan
Oct 24, 20232 min read
These Days . . . Doors
These days. I’ve been thinking of some doors Those we close and ones we walk through. Doors we pray for and some, well, we’d rather not...
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River Jordan
Oct 23, 20232 min read
Bridges to the Past
These days. I am thinking of bridges. The seeming majestic miracle of a bridge that carries us across waters or across years and years...
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River Jordan
Oct 20, 20232 min read
Through the Kaleidoscope
These days. I listen to Gregg Allman sing these words. “I’ve been out walking, don’t do that much talkin’ - these days.” And so it goes....
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River Jordan
Oct 11, 20234 min read
Fall is In the Air
A few days ago, I was walking wild dog Kevin when I couldn’t help but notice a couple of small kids on little battery cars coming down...
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