J.P. Dreul is a Nebraska farmer making an attempt to maintain Mom Nature from taking the final bits of his legacy and his sanity. Drought has fried his crops and his optimism. Daily, he faces the selection he should make to avoid wasting his farm. The soundness of a job on the town would imply a gradual revenue however solely he can resolve if the fee is simply too excessive.
His state of affairs could sound acquainted to many farmers and ranchers throughout the Excessive Plains, however J.P. is the principle character in Ron Dubas’s ebook “Wildflowers Past the Highway.”
Dubas can be a Nebraska farmer, so his perspective is rooted in actuality. Usually writing from the seat of his tractor, Dubas crafted a narrative that offers new life to J.P.’s optimism and his farm.
J.P. takes a job on the town to complement his farm revenue. Taking his farm-honed work ethic with him, he works two jobs—one mowing lawns for a golf course and the opposite as a mechanic for a domestically owned storage. The storage’s workplace clerk, Leah, has seen some exhausting occasions in her life as properly and rejects J.P.’s easy kindness from the beginning.
That rejection does nothing to mood J.P.’s happiness as he retains a bowl of sweet full on the breakroom desk and brings within the occasional wildflower. All indicators that his optimism is recovering.
Even J.P.’s withering crops are recovering because it begins raining quickly after he leaves to take the job on the town. Because the outdated saying goes, “It all the time rains on the finish of drought.”
Within the ebook, Dubas takes readers on a tour of a typical rural city by means of the eyes of J.P. and his new-to-the-country love curiosity, Leah. This tour and outline builds the muse of J.P.’s character, from his work ethic and his religion to the way in which he treats others.
Whereas he’s no angel, J.P. does what he believes is correct and begins to understand his life on the farm whereas working on the town. He even finds a bit little bit of the nation on the outskirts and makes use of it to introduce Leah to elements of the world she didn’t know existed earlier than J.P. got here alongside.
What reads like a fortunately ever after love story finally turns into one in all redemption, forgiveness and a few shined up optimism for all of its characters.
“Wildflowers Past the Highway” is a testomony to the 12 years Dubas put into its writing, modifying, and publishing. It’s properly written and provides readers a break from their on a regular basis actuality or perception into the muse of these from rural America.