Jade Jaspers Journal

First anthology by Jade Dane Jaspers Available now on Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/author/jadejaspers  Publisher:  Jade Jaspers Type:  Fiction Pages:  76 Copyright:  September 18, 2022 ISBN-13:  9798359469159 Price:   $6.99  (eBook) Excerpt from anthology:  Long Before Now Gone  Faded photo memories from long before now gone tells of life that grew to age in which we once belonged from hill and dale across the lands where tree and stump still stand lives the tales of past gone days of every child of man who wandered here among the rays of sunlit skies of blue to sit beneath the starry skies of night drenched silver hues near campfire sites or front porch chairs in groups or solitaire breathing in the thoughts of mind from living's daily cares where chore and duty recompensed their own reward to see in fields of harvest swaying in the passing by of breeze while weathered skin kept daily count of both a smile and worry teaching all wh...

We grow through life in wide eyed wonder growing day by day never knowing what will be from yester-years and ways, we've passed through as we traveled in our thoughts of being, passing over, under, 'round, our many moments living. From birth through youth into adults we seek and sort a path to become a version of a person that well has sought to be a part of life in choices, shapes and forms, deciding what we will believe, dismiss, accept, transform. In community displays of heroes, leaders, such we learn that we are great and small, capable and reluctant, in times when hardships and confusions take the stage to scene all the wiles from living on with hopes and prayers and dreams. To survive placidity where we strive to conquer boredoms, hum drums, lies, disguise while our young minds wonder about a grandeur, broader world waiting to be found, waiting for the steps we make ourselves to higher grounds. Where we learn, as we age, that greater things become as we care and tend, ap...