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Rick’s body of published work includes essays published in Ekstasis, Fathom, and the Boundary Waters’ Journal. He is currently working on a series of novel style memoirs dealing with challenging life stage transitions, the majesty of nature, the influence of culture and art, and the philosophy and strategy of socio-economic adaptation.
Rick Jebb
Place & growth. Rick has been seriously writing since 2010, seeking a voice to speak of hopefulness and adaptation in the midst of uncertain times, learning how to be in the world but not of it. His writing includes poetry, essay and existential spiritual memoir focused on facing life’s challenges: discovery and development of spirituality, transcendence, class struggle, mental illness and substance abuse all of which he has experienced personally and as a father and a son.
Rick’s body of published work includes essays published in Ekstasis, Fathom, and the Boundary Waters’ Journal. He is currently working on a series of novel style memoirs dealing with challenging life stage transitions, the majesty of nature, the influence of culture and art, and the philosophy and strategy of socio-economic adaptation.
Sideways rain rode a windstorm’s wall,
derecho drenched the girl and all
Otherworldly air between us too
That night I dreamt of Mexico and you…
Dan
A journey to the inner self
Ivan
A great old fashion story
Phil Bolos
Blend of memoir and travel
“Mexican Sunset: The vision Quest of modern day explorer by Rick Jebb is a very well written look at the events which led Rick to be the person that he is. The story begins with Rick struggling to deal with the unexpected loss of his step-father. This pushes Rick to grow up faster than expected and to go places he never thought he would end up in his life. While we get to explore Rick as the reader of the story, we also get to explore the world with him as he sets out to find out who he was meant to be. An easy read, this memoir is just as much about the person as it is about the places he has gone. Fans of memoirs and of travel will love everything that this book has to offer.”
Celeste L
Travel to independence
Mexican Sunset:
The Vision Quest of a Modern Day Explorer
After the unexpected death of his thirty-eight-year-old stepfather, fourteen-year-old Rick embarks on a five-year journey that begins in the Midwest’s Edenic Driftless Area canoeing a mysterious wild river in eastern Iowa.
While embracing the idealism of the 1970s counterculture, he seeks to discover himself in pursuit of his escapism. Amidst the backdrop of reconstructing his deconstructed Christian faith, sharing adventures with friends, his interior conversation gives a glimpse into the author’s inner growth during these years. If anything kept him moving forward, it was the delusion of his magical thinking: his imagination and wanting, and the wandering search through the looking glass of his impressionistic mind, slicing through glacial meltwaters of northern forests in a canoe and other evocative childhood memories.
On Colorado’s high chaparral, just as he begins to reconcile his industrialist roots with his curious artist’s soul, Rick falls in love with a girl from Sinaloa, Mexico. After high school, he hitchhikes back and forth across the country, visiting old friends before returning to Mexico to find the girl. Traveling the back roads of Mexico with new friends, looking down from the top of an active volcano, and taking a dangerous acid trip at the edge of Cholula’s Great Pyramid, he comes to see his life’s trajectory reflected in the struggles of his ancestors and buried in the secrets of Mexico’s past.
