Posted on 12/17/2017 7:37:47 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
The wayfarers were gone, but they left a thank-you note attached to the blanket. Signed by Mary, Joe and newborn son Christian, it read: "Good will to all".
That cold Christmas Eve, my boyhood best friend and mentor Jaybird leaned on the porch rail of his home, looking across Mississippi Delta cotton fields he had worked in since he was a boy.
In moon-blanched stillness, the fields were taking their winter rest.
Good will...to some.
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