April 23, 2025 falls on a Wednesday. A lot is going on at the Creekbank today. Around noon, Matheus and I will approve “The Three Trees,” starting its two-day Amazon review. You’ll be able to purchase your copies at Amazon. You’re going to love it and want to pass it on to the young people in your life. Stay tuned. …
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My 3 Daily Guidelines are: Staying Curious Being Amazed Sharing Moving Stories. Basically, that’s what I do every day. I’ve never lost my curiosity. In addition to my membership at Calvary Baptist Church in Alexandria, I’m a card-carrying member of Church on the Levee, a homeless church that meets on Sunday afternoons. We gather under the Murray …
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SAT. JAN. 25 “GO FOR YOUR DEAMS WITH GREAT INTENSITY.” -Don Gray to his son John upon his graduation from East Beauregard in 1986. Lots of people,” as the poet and artist Austin Kleon puts it, “want to be the noun without doing the verb.” To make something great, what’s required is need. As in, I need …
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FIELD NOTES Our Journey Page for today Thursday, January 23 Today, I’m speaking at a senior adult lunch at my church, Calvary Baptist Church. I’ll be sharing snippets from my latest release, Where I Come From: Journeys, Seasons, and Quarters Lessons from the Seed Tree Professor Cavanaugh’s Best Lecture Thought on the beautiful art of forgiveness: “3 Fallouts” …
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Creekbank Stories Curt Iles, Storyteller