Excerpt
With Jazz
I never paid much attention to current events, all the trouble in the world you
hear about. I was too busy raising a family. But my children have all gone now
and I’ve started to think about things that go on. Why would my daughter
live with a man and get ready to raise a baby and refuse to marry the guy? Why
would my son live in a cabin by the river and not see a soul for months on end?
But that’s just personal. I’m thinking of the bigger picture, too.
It seems a person barely lives long enough to begin to see where his little
piece fits in the universal puzzle. I’m not old but I imagine that old
people start to figure out how to live just when it’s too late. These
thoughts come up at my weekly neighborhood group. It started out as a
weight-reducing club, but we kept meeting even after we all got skinny. Now on
Fridays after wo ... read full excerpt from Zigzagging Down Wild Trail ebook