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Up Above
Something was wrong. My otherwise un-intruded childhood witnessed my dark-colored friend, Daniel, mistreated. The uneasiness covered me...
Jerry Waddell
Dec 4, 20232 min read


What if?
Granting glimmers between reflection and longing, joy lays hold of you by what you know you will lose, with reflections of the...
Jerry Waddell
Nov 27, 20232 min read


A conversation with excerpts from Mary Oliver's poem, Terns
Don’t think just now of the trudging forward of thought, but of the wing-drive of unquestioning affirmation…. To unwind the reel and...
Jerry Waddell
Nov 20, 20232 min read


The buttonhole beside you
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, Or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, But because it never forgot...
Jerry Waddell
Nov 14, 20232 min read


Just an old peach box
Chasing trophies in my youth, chasing validation, a pattern laid a groove in my psyche. My first trophy meant only there would be a...
Jerry Waddell
Nov 6, 20232 min read


A Good Flashlight
Not fully cognizant at five o’clock in the morning, I was reading my devotional prayer for the day. At once, a line in the prayer woke me...
Jerry Waddell
Oct 30, 20232 min read


The Tapestry
Yeshua Cristo relaxed his shoulders. The work had been arduous, long, a bit tedious, challenging but not without joy. Tapestry work...
Jerry Waddell
Oct 24, 20232 min read


The arborist
It would happen this way. One day would move faster than Hassel. The next day would not move fast enough. Hassel and the day could not...
Jerry Waddell
Oct 17, 20232 min read


When bad becomes normal
Golf’s simple purpose, made complicated by its attempt, satisfies our desire for pursuit while it frustrates an equal one for beauty and...
Jerry Waddell
Oct 10, 20232 min read


The Walking Man
Sometimes the thought crosses my mind civilization hinges on whether or not I rise in the morning and make my bed. Remnants of a...
Jerry Waddell
Oct 3, 20232 min read


To the contrary
“ Christianity is certainly not melancholy, it is, on the contrary, glad tidings for the melancholy; to the frivolous, it is certainly...
Jerry Waddell
Sep 26, 20232 min read


The End of Truth
“Master Doulos, Is the Bible true?” That’s an old question many have asked. What do you mean? “I mean, is it factual?” The simple answer...
Jerry Waddell
Sep 19, 20232 min read


It just took time
Foraging through the house, equally through my mind, I searched for my watch. Where did I put it? I’m sure I left it on the coffee table....
Jerry Waddell
Sep 11, 20232 min read


Little Kings and Butterflies
Seeing ourselves as we are is a hard thing to do. But what eyes do we trust most but our own? We are our own rule maker in our own little...
Jerry Waddell
Sep 5, 20232 min read


A temporary tourist
I’m up on the mountain. It’s early morn and the day is waking. Sitting outside on the porch, I sense mountain time settle over me much as...
Jerry Waddell
Aug 28, 20232 min read


Remember?
It could be well argued (though argument is far from the point) the most important words in Christendom are “Take, eat” and “Drink from...
Jerry Waddell
Aug 22, 20232 min read


Consider the apostrophe
Is it creeks end or creek’s end? How is one to know if creeks do end or possess an end? Only the apostrophe can tell the tale. If the...
Jerry Waddell
Aug 15, 20232 min read


Who among us?
One of a golfer’s enduring bad habits and character flaws is to look in a fellow competitor’s bag to take a peek at their club selection....
Jerry Waddell
Aug 8, 20232 min read


A Very Good Roadbuilder
This fine hushed morning entered my waking like all others – definite, dark and coaxing me toward consciousness. Slowing me into savoring...
Jerry Waddell
Aug 1, 20232 min read


Hickory sticks and brussel sprouts
Needed, sensory deprivation evaded my rearing. Fresh with me are Mom’s stern looks and unchallenged tone of voice and any threat of death...
Jerry Waddell
Jul 24, 20232 min read
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