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      • The Overland Stage: 11 – Pass Creek to Bridger Station
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      • The Overland Stage: 15 – Almond to Rock Springs
      • The Overland Stage: 16 – Rock Springs to Fort Bridger
      • The Overland Stage: 17 – Fort Bridger to Weber Station

I find I don’t wish to explore new lands, but to explore again those I have already passed through, trying to see what I’d missed in the first hectic rush … Gerard Van der Leun

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The New American Digest Posted on April 23, 2025 by JeanApril 23, 2025

First posted: July 17, 2008

I think about you
almost never
these days.
much less than
once in a while.
funny that, don't
you think, all
those tears
washed my eyes
and let me see,
there is, after all,
life after left over.

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Which?

The New American Digest Posted on April 23, 2025 by DTApril 22, 2025

Sometimes, this is how I feel when I have a post idea.

I actually just trashed one that on hindsight, felt it added nothing and subtracted much. I'll leave some of my developing ... hatred? ... of "things" to myself.
It's hard sometimes to keep from spewing out in public. Don't we all get enough of that most of our waking hours everywhere we look?

Not that I'm all in for rainbows and unicorns ...

This is much better:

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Gerard Van der Leun
12/26/45 - 1/27/23


Gerard's Last Post
(posthumous): Feb 4, 2023
"So Long. See You All a Little Further Down the Road"

When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?
Or tropical rain?
Or snow from the heavens?
Will I join with the ocean blue?
Or run into a savior true?
And shake hands laughing
And walk through the night, straight to the light
Holding the love I’ve known in my life
And no hard feelings

Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings

The following was posted along with the announcement of Gerard's passing.
Leonard Cohen - Going Home

For a 2005 interview with Gerard


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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you

Take me for a trip upon
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All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'

I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
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Men who saw night coming down about them could somehow act as if they stood at the edge of dawn.


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