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      • The Overland Stage: 5 – Julesburg to Junction Station (aka Ft Morgan)
      • The Overland Stage: 6 – Junction Station to Latham
      • The Overland Stage: 7 – Latham Crossing to Fort Collins
      • The Overland Stage: 8 – LaPorte to Virginia Dale
      • The Overland Stage: 9 – Virginia Dale to Cooper Creek
      • The Overland Stage: 10 – Cooper Creek to Pass Creek
        • Fletcher Family
      • The Overland Stage: 11 – Pass Creek to Bridger Station
      • The Overland Stage: 12 – Bridger Pass to Duck Lake
      • The Overland Stage: 13 – Duck Lake to LaClede
      • The Overland Stage: 14 – LaClede to Almond
      • 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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Don’t Forget

The New American Digest Posted on September 21, 2025 by DTSeptember 21, 2025

Both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia operated under "rule of law".

Headline: "...democracy and the rule of law are under assault from disinformation, division, and shrinking civic space,"

And I can't help thinking that democracy - two wolves and a lamb voting on lunch - has caused more problems around the world ... especially when forcing it on people that didn't want it.

But then, we're not supposed to be a democracy.

A free people includes armed lambs.

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Gone Fhisin’

The New American Digest Posted on September 21, 2025 by DTSeptember 20, 2025

Saw this sitting out in the back lot of an artist's studio near Loveland, CO. The back lot ... with the dumpsters and such. Not up front on display.

Stopped in to talk with the fellow.

The story I got was that someone commissioned this sculpture but was not able to pay for it. Supposedly $30,000 melt value of bronze. Someone that had ... emphasize "had" ... the $100k or so to justify accepting the commission.

It's the face and figure of the guy it was to go to.

"Who wants a large statue of some other guy?"
. . . . .
"Maybe someone will buy it"

That was long ago; haven't been back.
I wonder what happened to it.

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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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  1. Gern Blanston on Just ‘Cause I Felt Like ItMarch 11, 2026

    Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yFTOvO0utY

  2. jean on From One To AnotherMarch 11, 2026

    thank you muchly, GrayDog.

  3. jean on From One To AnotherMarch 11, 2026

    thank you, Joe.

  4. Gary on Just ‘Cause I Felt Like ItMarch 11, 2026

    Don't forget Guitarzan ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=293Irm-vxtE

  5. GrayDog on From One To AnotherMarch 11, 2026

    Love your poetry, Jean.


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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
your magic swirling ship
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
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it


Men who saw night coming down about them could somehow act as if they stood at the edge of dawn.


From Gerard's site. The picture always caught my eye.

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