<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>https://ecency.com</link><image><url>https://ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>https://ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:34:02 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Broken                    ...The Art of Love]]></title><description><![CDATA[Born broken, mended by living. ― Eugene O'Neill Shadow Self We have sun So we get shadow— But in heaven They tell me There's no black Or charcoal, Everything lit from within. Not so, on earth Where there’s]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/broken-the-art-of-love</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/broken-the-art-of-love</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:47:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvGBHDnRaj2zVCcpeJW4jyLMe4SBCQSjfjJEdcwE9u2dS3YpRe6TvYTE9VqU624wroBwhSRYmvLyWgQ77Moj3dYoXBXfJq6RkoyHMnE2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping You Safe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sweet girl, this is your love. Don’t throw it away searching for something else. Look at me, lying next to you; Trust me not to harm you. Trust me not to go. I'm your someone. Be that someone for me. ―]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/keeping-you-safe</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/keeping-you-safe</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:28:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/W5LtFUPm6g73GywJLc4qygvKQLxbMqCTkw7us6TSxWWtYMzqYLb3ZeEG8iXExbVppye8XWHiNyW1rVEmwGBUagY9MZ1AB8F4RPSQTwSLAakDVd1TScTidEF2DXj93FBis39LeZPpWt169922B714Lvfi8KvAA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind, Sand and Waves]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are always the same age inside. ― Gertrude Stein I came back from the lake Sunburnt with tousled hair And feeling like a boy And thought, Maybe I still am… But then, looked In the mirror And saw the]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/wind-sand-and-waves</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/wind-sand-and-waves</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:25:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/99pyU5Ga1kwr5Xg46gnE3BrdGQcYkevrMfGqYdeMPEjbbXnSaD8kRpzSgbyXdPZexHBQ3uu8DAoKM5uqNdAa2CtNsAfHWQvqyR3fFAUyMbRZuocaec4eNJfTXsHNG1PF74?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fugitive                         ...Fleeing from the Past]]></title><description><![CDATA[Love me wildly, like a thief in the night, because tomorrow we may be caught. — Boris Pasternak We fled those years Down windy nights Of racing clouds When the moon was A flickering light bulb. You were]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/fugitive-fleeing-from-the-past</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/fugitive-fleeing-from-the-past</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:27:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/8SzwQc8j2KJa5zNbRVVrXnjUH7HeFHWfeS6aA7zxKuGpV1f6HQvTBTQ3crDcGtNzfZTRunhUzpQhcdYNY5AdqPzFWZQPHCKk4Q1wwAuBq3eV2zFHuHx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wanted Man                               ...Not Just in the Way I'd Prefer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The saints are in the black list. ― Ilkin Santak I type in a circle of light In an empty room, Surrounded by shadows And ghosts of you. I’m not dramatic, But intense— Everything focused And heightened]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/wanted-man-not-just-in-the-way-id-prefer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/wanted-man-not-just-in-the-way-id-prefer</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:32:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2VZXybTSZJq1HdYsB7fJjuW6meDRuV7r8fXfxUUXgthiCt9m1TW1ZrHwtfY1AzrHPbbimFucryZJucQVby49X97tn1AyTChYiMKEYLrd26SPZuohdFWyS3fAid9e1VowbmHzEckUFaU6d5P8FEsyBGwpfin?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark Love]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dark love is the love that is never named. ― Lorca Unreachable Beauty I stop at night In the garden To watch The Moon face In black water, So lovely, Trembling In the dark... Yet when I touch it It departs.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/dark-love</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/dark-love</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:27:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2FFvzA2zeqoVPgRCnRzbu79fYh1Svf3mN2MBPH8MjsoHfVDRHzE8Rasxai5s2EsMCCFUJsrWJbtRBPJBQtgwKbjMy3i1wDfGeSjzdBQddHxFjkFrWos1FUKGJ1tu4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn Beauty                    ...Country Girl]]></title><description><![CDATA[No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. ― John Donne Still Lovely I love walking In the fall With you. Despite Our scraping pains— Dry leaves on our walk, Your]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/autumn-beauty-country-girl</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/autumn-beauty-country-girl</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:16:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2VZXybTSZJq1HdYsB7fJjuW6meDRuV7r8fXfxUUYaN1oiYNnK27Vz51VUwVyFctqiGeG5AkBDMvVFSWcAjnkKHBHcmMryHnixdBKq3MR1LnKdCU7Y1cwa5Lr6mSzXLvbuQhFKrQyxGG1PEXBCiFvPZLjc8e?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softly Spoken Needs                 ...Part 3                ....Finale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you. — Tennessee Williams I’m living in a haunted house and in a berg that chooses me, rather]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/softly-spoken-needs-part-3-finale</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/softly-spoken-needs-part-3-finale</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:44:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/6VvuHGsoU2QCK6yq1XKF2z9F8sayRpwConx4qLBBCEnwHWmS21YXFS6CfnxZQ8xx2rYBLH8hgi565zsZQVArzQequcLwUFf29NBzn3CvTSin556KDzQuMxWgMiBBAN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softly Spoken Needs                 ...Part 2                ....Consulting a Medium]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s usually not a good idea to put the truth speaker of the tribe on speakerphone. ― Anthon St. Maarten Ella James, Resident Guru I'm trying to find out why I'm receiving spooky messages on my i-phone.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/softly-spoken-needs-part-2-consulting-a-medium</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/softly-spoken-needs-part-2-consulting-a-medium</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:53:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2VZXybTSZJq1HdYsB7fJjuW6meDRuV7r8fXfxUUZu6EmBMV2heqS7FCVHojnpgCye2qEZWjkCQQJa2yy4wFE1FFvvcgYM4S3S7oz8qsgBATdzChYifdyVzyTss2KkX2fDyWZpKvRNJKBauMwss6HN85RXen?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softly Spoken Needs          ...Part 1   ...Sexted by a Ghost]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room ― Jean Rhys Spooky Text When I go into the Apple store I get rattled. The Genius Bar rattles me; the lineups rattle]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/softly-spoken-needs-part-1-sexted-by-a-ghost</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/softly-spoken-needs-part-1-sexted-by-a-ghost</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:46:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/6VvuHGsoU2QCK6yq1XKF2z9F8sayRpwConx4qLBY8qifPw9bJXyKktfNjBygq474yno2KhNwE3xnzjXf1MvQVBGX7z8n3BXNPofbqAvcEf1CfouZvDUBshEjh51K8A?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real Need                 …A Thanksgiving Tale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eventually, we all make it home, and we make an individual path by any means. ―Joy Harjo Finding a Home The only Thanksgiving dinner I ever knew was a Norman Rockwell painting. In the foster homes where]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/real-need-a-thanksgiving-tale</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/real-need-a-thanksgiving-tale</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:44:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4i88GgaV8qiFkxbnGCXnHPUK3daVLCQA4oDc4ixpzuVCKgAao52HH8RoBj9QigL9jEndjeKhyoQPi6HYqVEF16KYkYhtPVY1y8jJ2ecKDKgDnvjaty1KxX7Jna?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Spirit     …Finale        …A Ghostly Bargain]]></title><description><![CDATA[We've had to deal with so many complications. And what can we do? Nothing -unless we make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. How come we can only get]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/thanksgiving-spirit-finale-a-ghostly-bargain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/thanksgiving-spirit-finale-a-ghostly-bargain</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:47:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2VZXybTSZJq1HdYsB7fJjuW6meDRuV7r8fXfxUUYdoGifGLo75Rb8tp3Jwfs2F8smicAHv6eMnNogEnTAKxKKVpkrThxsBpZCuRhKAH7AzHvjPoyJqLNWMgZCN2RT6YSgx4Y5aKfcJMarAHqAxKyh2MehvW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Spirit     …Part 3        …Summoning a Spirit]]></title><description><![CDATA[I began to doubt I'd ever know what transpired, or who those people really were. But all that changed one autumn afternoon, when surprised by a dead man who had answers. ― James Caskey Oliver Morton, late]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/thanksgiving-spirit-part-3-summoning-a-spirit</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/thanksgiving-spirit-part-3-summoning-a-spirit</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:07:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2VZXybTSZJq1HdYsB7fJjuW6meDRuV7r8fXfxUUYtZMoMMhoM2SXodz59kQGqtpDq2qr7qrSukzrVh3Yn198JHbG2kU4Pp4ufZxEt5j8Zb12nxU3BoEFQ1eeoPM8mqAgA3Kc3V67muottDJK74sVW3L2dLr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Spirit     …Part 2        …Demoms in the Belfry?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We all have a big house to keep, and there is always an angel in one room and a demon in the other. ― Tennessee Williams Figure in Hiding It’s Fall—five days before Thanksgiving and the the church is decked]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/thanksgiving-spirit-part-2-demoms-in-the-belfry</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/thanksgiving-spirit-part-2-demoms-in-the-belfry</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:57:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/3jpR3paJ37V8XPrHkfZdMtiM68fywBJwYt7EuhvmMRRHKQEjcjJHmYjbmrdU4yDdEDTZsrrgNSr8p7ybKDdBHnBtc6sksNC5bTRnjMMuigt6Uyr7yFticrtrswpah5dSBD5b4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Spirit                     Part 1               ...A Season of Change]]></title><description><![CDATA[At what point do you give up— decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never ― Tabitha Suzuma I light a candle and watch the flame flutter in the red glass votive cup. I haven’t lived]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/thanksgiving-spirit-part-1-a-season-of-change</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/thanksgiving-spirit-part-1-a-season-of-change</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:34:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/8SzwQc8j2KJa5zNbRVVrXnjUH7HeFHWfeS6aA813C9dsH5TZkKgmHY55RF2WimebMHv7MAH9egFvrpDr8vHsBmxgYGvH6te7MmY7nEiNLhkvZ2n88VC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notice Me                   Part 3            …The Ghost Appears]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and miss being alive. — Peter Straub Harry, Our Companion Spirit I’m an investiagtive reporter for The Toronto]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/notice-me-part-3-the-ghost-appears</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/notice-me-part-3-the-ghost-appears</guid><category><![CDATA[story]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:54:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rgfL8m3ngH8ykzEfYadCQNgCxnH1Th9yyE8kwMf3EEhYKpT5j5aJuB3wjmzQPAGAh5xbbsW3Xrv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notice Me                  ...Part 2                 ...Being Observed]]></title><description><![CDATA[To the person in a bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream... ― Sylvia Plath I’m a reporter for The Toronto Telegraph and Ben Church, my assignment editor, wants me]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/notice-me-part-2-being-observed</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/notice-me-part-2-being-observed</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:30:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/6VvuHGsoU2QCK6yq1XKF2z9F8sayRpwConx4qLBDUeegyMjLVQs2qKewyS1k4DZiM36dKQYr1bZ3hyDWXj1nx5Cr8mh7TZbYn6jyTvasCpzNwHvHkJCULaVpFc1Jdk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notice Me         ...Part 1                ...A Haunting Tale]]></title><description><![CDATA[The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. — H.P. Lovecraft I’m a writer—a journalist like Hemingway—although, where that leaves]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/notice-me-part-1-a-haunting-tale</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/notice-me-part-1-a-haunting-tale</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:39:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2VZXybTSZJq1HdYsB7fJjuW6meDRuV7r8fXfxUUZb3zYxmecDKBjCEo1n5zdC6131Cey2XMqVSap8Zpom45EdoRg8yEk2zqYimcJXhtVsRKzzE2k3ai7FHPw5cgjDocJBq3PU8rnX5cLSiAZfZeGgoFgCke?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glimpses of you                             ...A love Poem]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are Fleeting moments When I grasp The depth Of our intensity… A Sunlit Moment I’ve been ordering my body to forget, but when I dream my arms remember, I end up aching all over Awakening From your]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/glimpses-of-you-a-love-poem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/glimpses-of-you-a-love-poem</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:28:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/cyxkEVqiiLy5czPNg6acYev351Du9gQgrBvuGckNfWHzBoLT5ZgcT8YnVuwyNr2TzKjtqcb9oBCyTWMvi4wfCSxPoeyANj5J5Rfc5nfh2UgncNMd4HUZFY6xBFujxffDSPg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reinventing A Life                             ...Coping and Caring]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's up to us, to hope and bear on. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Caring and Carrying on Grief is a mind-numbing affliction—it robs you of your will to do the simplest tasks. I miss my wife every day and]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/reinventing-a-life-coping-and-caring</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@johnjgeddes/reinventing-a-life-coping-and-caring</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnjgeddes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:39:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/gPCasciUWmEzNYtqbGEDRoyYeseHMDTak3FVSeK5CWMLSgDSNkxyqaSZzrnhAEiuAJZ5UH5qiUa97vZpfDeu9BxYLyRgERx51T31yNK56RkV3YmXH9QUJfMy9iSC7hAVzWxUTdWPzJnzTiqDan?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>