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How Did You Spend Sunday Afternoons?
From Sundays on Walker’s Bend

By Bruce Walker copyright 2024
In this hectic, Tik-tok connected, errr, “Old Bossy.” After Saturday morning
the 24/7 news collected, and Wi-Fi selected and we would all go to town for the after-
chores, granddaddy would whistle us up
world; you see more advertisement for
noon. My cousins and I would race to see
Xanax and Zoloft than you do for milk and
bread. With heads down, fingers tapping who would sit on the pick-up truck’s tail-
and staring into a screen, the more we “con- gate, dangling our legs over the edge, going
Editor nect” the more disconnected we are. Our Uncle Charnel’s coondog rode up front with
down the gravel road into town. Brumley,
digital culture is driving us all crazy. Some
his nose and ears jammed through the side
are already there. Look in your rear-view
mirror, the rest of us are not far behind; window vent, tongue and cheeks flapping in
made me think about my raising. the wind.
My main goal on those cold north On the courthouse square, there
Alabama winters was to make it to the was a cacophony of guitars, fiddles and
Hello Friends, only source of heat in our old farmhouse, banjos weaving intricate melodies with
The Bowen Family Band, Thank you for reading April’s Seeker. I just Please let us know if you app- a potbellied stove roaring with a hickory giving words to our shared Irish and Scot-
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As I sat at the table, mother would tousle
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Good News. Have a splendid spring season.
squares competed (Cont’d on pg. 8)
my hair, granddaddy sitting in his cane
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