Echoes From the Campfire

Friendships are not so many in this life, and we had put rough country behind us and kicked up some dust in our passing, and we had smelled a little powder smoke  together and there’s nothing binds men together like sweat and gunsmoke.”                     –Louis L’Amour …

Coffee Percs

In a little while the chips were glowing and throwing off heat enough to boil coffee and fry bacon… He leaned back and savored a second cup of coffee. ‘This is the life we was born for.’”                     –Elmer Kelton  (Six-Bits A Day)   “From this…

Echoes From the Campfire

Age is age, and heart is heart, and too much of the first seems never to bother the second, if there’s plenty to start with.”                     –J.V. James  (Old)        “Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me,…

Echoes From the Campfire

Don’t let your emotions make your decisions.”                     –D.C. Adkisson  (The True and Unbiased Life of Elias Butler)        “So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.”                  …