A word from Curt Leaning Trees “When I observe a young person, I experience two strong emotions. First, I feel great affection for the young person they are. Then secondly, I feel a deep respect for the adult they will one day become.” -Louis Pasteur On the morning before Hurricane Rita arrived, I made one last survey of my …
Read More »Escalators Part 3
Escalators Part 3: Once you get on the steepest escalator under Boston, don’t look back. It may disorient you and cause you to stumble. The way is always forward. Keep moving forward and upward. Life lesson: Always look forward in your life. The path is always up. Moving, Curt Iles You can read Parts 1 and 2 of “Escalators” …
Read More »How to Ride an Escalator Part 2
How to get on an Escalator Part 2 We’ll be updating “Escalator Stories” this week at www.creekbank.net Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. -Hebrews 11:1 How do you get on an escalator? Very carefully With faith. Emma, Eliza, and I stood at the foot of the longest, steepest …
Read More »Part 1 How to Ride an Escalator
How to Ride an Escalator You can keep up with the evolution of this post throughout this week at www.creekbank.net “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” -Hebrews 11:1 How do you get on an escalator? Carefully and with faith. I’m writing this week about an amazing thing called …
Read More »How to Join the Creekbank Family
We love it when readers/listeners choose to become a part of The Creek Family. There are all kinds of ways to join: VIEW/Subscribe Join Curt on the Creekbank YouTube Channel: @curtiles56 LISTEN Listen/Subscribe to the Creekbank Audio Podcast. READ You can read over 1500 blog posts (stretching back to 2009) at www.creekbank.net FOLLOW Become a Creekbank Facebook follower at …
Read More »“Snake-Popping” An excerpt from “A Good Place.”
Scroll down to learn of ways you can be part of The Creek Family. My favorite passage from A Good Place. I read the following story to a senior adult group earlier in the week. One lady laughed so hard that I thought we were going to have to perform the Heimlich Maneuver on her. Here is it …
Read More »Leadership: Thoughts on “Stewardship”
Thoughts on Stewardship Saturday, June 1 It’s the first day of a new month. June 1. It’s the first day of hurricane season. June 1. It’s my birthday. Number 68. 68. That’s a lot of hurricane seasons in Louisiana. June 1. It could be considered the half mark of the year. It’s a good time to …
Read More »An Eulogy on James David Cain
James David Cain Recently, I was privileged to deliver an eulogy at the funeral of James David Cain. Below are my remarks in their entirety. (I cut most of my speech due to time. That’s what happens when you have too many preachers on stage.) I hope you enjoy these thoughts on a man who helped shape my life. …
Read More »Gray-Headed Wisdom
“When an old man dies, a library burns.” -African Proverb “. . . precisely like the old-fashioned school-master, of whom it was written, ‘ And still, they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.’ ” -Rhyme in old New England primer. I have so many elders who fit those definitions.
Read More »A word for today: Perseverance
Perseverance “Everyone wants a harvest but few are willing to plow.” Keep going. Keep your hands on the plow. don’t give up. Persevere.
Read More »A Memorial Day Story Worth Telling: A Soldier’s Story
A Note from Curt: As long as I’m alive, the story of Sgt. Leroy Johnson will be remembered. It’s a story worth telling, worth passing on. We need to be reminded that freedom is never free. It’s important to remember stories of heroes who paid with their lives for our American freedom. There is no better example of …
Read More »Watch Out for the Fish
This is a reader favorite from my third book, Wind in the Pines. You can order Wind in the Pines on Amazon. VIEW Join Curt as he shares at the Creekbank YouTube Channel: @curtiles56 LISTEN Listen to the Creekbank Audio Podcast or at Spotify: Curt Iles/Creekbank Stories As always, enjoy. Curt Watch out for the Fish It’s trendy …
Read More »Hauling Dogs
Hauling Dogs This story is so good that I didn’t have to make it up. I’m staying with my Mom this week and she is regaling me with stories. The following may be my favorite: When our family moved to Dry Creek in 1960, we had one vehicle, a beat-up GMC truck. My Mom, who has always had a travel …
Read More »Thoughts on Turning Sixty-Eight
Thoughts on Turning 68 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me . . .” I Chronicles 4:10 I turn 68 in a couple of weeks. Now, I’m not planning on going anywhere, but I’m in a season …
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