Front Porch Tales: Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love
Wisdom and Humor from the Front Porch\ Master storyteller Philip Gulley shares tender and hilarious real-life moments that capture the important truths of everyday life.\ When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had no idea one of them would find its way to radio commentator Paul Harvey Jr. and be read on the air to 24 million people. Fourteen books later, with more than a million books in print, Gulley still entertains as...
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Filled with warm, inspirational stories that illustrate the kind of values Christians want to pass to future generations, Front Porch Tales is the perfect way to begin or end a day. Family members of all ages will be deeply touched by these stories designed to lift their spirits and help them gain perspective on what is really important in life. Stories can be slowly savored one at a time, or the entire audio can be listened to in one sitting. Either way, listeners will be encouraged as each tale wraps its way around their hearts. About the Author:Philip Gulley is a Quaker minister, writer, husband, and father. He is the author of Home Town Tales, For Everything a Season, and Home to Harmony. He and his wife, Joan, live in Danville, Indiana, with their sons, Spencer and Sam.
Front Porch Tales\ Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love \ \ By Philip Gulley \ HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.\ Copyright © 2005 Philip Gulley\ All right reserved.\ ISBN: 0060006277 \ \ \ Growing Roots\ Had an old neighbor when I was growing up named Doctor Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. Every time I saw him, he was wearing denim overalls and a straw hat, the front brim of which was green sunglass plastic. He smiled a lot, a smile that matched his hat-old and crinkly and wellworn. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone who was a lot nicer than circumstances warranted.\ When Doctor Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life-goal was to make it a forest. The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning plant husbandry. He came from the "No pain, no gain" school of horticulture. He never watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you water them, each successive tree generation will grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things rough for them and weed out the weenie trees early on ...\ \ Continues... \ \ \ \ Excerpted from Front Porch Tales by Philip Gulley Copyright © 2005 by Philip Gulley. Excerpted by permission.\ All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.\ Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site. \ \
