by jakeowensby | Jul 22, 2022 | Letting Go, Trust
This is the second installment in the Best Of Series (originally published August 7, 2020) The Saura people called that mountain Jomeokee: Great Guide. Rising abruptly nearly 2,000 feet and crowned by a ring of tree-topped rock walls, it has served for centuries as a...
by jakeowensby | Oct 8, 2021 | Mark 10:17-31
R- once said to me, “I’m not afraid of death. I’m just afraid of dying.” Close friends since childhood, R- and I were freshmen at different colleges. We had come back home for the holidays. R- meant something like this. He believed that we will be endlessly happy in...
by jakeowensby | Oct 12, 2018 | grace
The movers had packed everything. Everything. We realized this as we began searching for the coffee maker amid the sea of unhelpfully labeled boxes. We unwrapped mason jars filled with rusty nails and bent shuffleboard cues left in our shed by the previous owner. We...