Creekbank Stories Curt Iles, Storyteller

Saturday, February 1, 2025   Seasons   I’ve been thinking about Seasons. Winter is still with us, but I tilled my potato ground today. It was great to smell turned earth. It’s one of my 5 favorite smells. What is your favorite smell? Smells? I’d love to hear from you at curt@creekbank.net   Seasons in my culture, we plant Irish …

Readers are loving our latest short story collection,Where I Come From.   Reader feedback continues with, “Curt, this is your best book yet.” See for yourself! I want to invite you to visit our Where I Come From Amazon Page today.     You can read six sample chapters on the Amazon page.  Reader beware:  Few readers who read Chapters …

      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 …

    Field Notes  Mission Statement   (coming today)   What is a Field Note?  (Details to come)   Tentative Back Cover Text  for Field Notes  (Coming today)   Gene Ortis’s Father’s “Laws of Generosity:”   Dad’s 6 Principles of Generosity 1.        You can’t love without giving. 1 John 3:17 2.        Extra is what you have received.  Extra is what you …

  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” …

On being confidential   It’s one of the most important traits of a strong leader. He can keep things in confidence. This leads to trust. Being confidential is also one of the most difficult parts of leadership. You’re going to have lost of information others don’t have, but you cannot share it without breaking confidence. Sometimes it will make you …

  HIS NAME WAS CARL   “Although Adam was a friend of mine I did not know him well. He was far into his distance. He was deep into his well.” ”A Song for Adam” Jackson Browne   His name was Carl, and he froze to death last Wednesday night on the streets of Alexandria.   I didn’t even know …

Getting my Hoot Owl Call Back. DRAFT: TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2025   I step out of my truck onto our family land in Dry Creek. It’s so quiet. No artificial noise. Until I make my hoot-owl call. I cup my hands to my mouth, “Hoot-hoo-hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot-alllll.’ It echoes back from the surrounding woods. I smile. I know I’m coming out of …

  An Open Letter to my Home Church, Dry Creek Baptist Church:  The most important man you never knew. Robert Evans October 26, 1943- January 8, 2025 “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.”   –The Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 3:16 Other than a few of us, no one remembers the name of Bob Evans and his …

“My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of …

Genesis 39   ”The Lord was with Joseph.”   That’s all you need to know. It’s all you need to hear.   Visit  www.creekbank.net  today to learn more.              

JOIN US ON THE 2025 PROVERBS JOURNEY As we start  a new year, I’d want you to make the Proverbs reading plan part of your daily Quiet time: Read the Proverbs Chapter that correlates for the day of the month.  (Proverbs 1 for January 1). The purpose of Solomon’s Proverbs collection is clear: PROVERBS 1:1. “The proverbs of Solomon, son …

updated on Friday, December 27, 2024 Our favorite store, Foreman’s Grocery in Dry Creek, is open again! Stop in for some of the best boudin in Louisiana and pick up a signed copy of Where I Come From.   Where I Come From: Tales from the Pineywoods   66 new stories. 291 pages Paperback Price: $20.00 Hardcover $30.00 Kindle eBook  …

  “I think it was Tolstoy who said something like, “If you feel pain, you’re alive, and if you feel the pain of others, it means you’re human.”   If you’ve got a platform and have experienced great pain, you should share about it.