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Mr GabBy Mr GabJune 16, 202503 Mins Read121 Views
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Windswept Trails: The Story of Rob Harford”

They say a man is made by the choices he doesn’t regret. I’ve made plenty I should, but somehow they’ve all led me here—to this battered leather chair in a cabin overlooking the Pacific, where the waves remind me of everything I ran from, and everything I chased.

I was born in 1972 in a crumbling Nebraska town no one drives to unless they’ve made a wrong turn. My father was a mechanic who swore louder than he prayed, and my mother, a schoolteacher who believed kindness could fix a broken soul. They loved each other in the way storms love the plains—loud, sudden, and gone before you knew what hit you.

I left home at seventeen with a duffel bag, a harmonica, and a letter I never mailed. I thought I’d find something bigger—music, fame, peace, maybe all three. I ended up in Austin, playing dive bars for free whiskey and applause from the drunkest guy in the room. There was a girl, of course—Laura with the chipped red nail polish and a voice like gravel and honey. We tried to build a life out of guitar strings and cigarettes, but love can’t survive on dreams alone.

By thirty, I was working construction in Colorado, writing songs no one would hear and raising a son I didn’t know how to love properly. Ben was quiet like his mother and twice as smart. He asked me once, “Why don’t you sing anymore?” I didn’t have the heart to tell him that somewhere between chasing the music and missing his first steps, I’d lost the sound of my own voice.

But life, like a good song, doesn’t always rhyme. At forty-two, I packed up, left the whiskey behind, and drove west until the land ended. Found this cabin in Oregon where the trees don’t care about your past, and the ocean listens better than any crowd ever did.

I started writing again—songs, then poems, then pages that turned into this. Not because I think my story is worth telling, but because I owe it to the version of me who never gave up, even when he should’ve. The young man who sang to empty rooms. The father who kept trying, even when he failed. The lover who couldn’t stay but never forgot.

Now, on calm mornings, Ben calls. He’s a teacher, like his grandmother, and better than I ever was. Sometimes he brings his daughter to visit, and she asks me to play songs I barely remember writing. I play them anyway. And I think—maybe this is what peace looks like. Not applause, not fame. Just a small fire, a warm blanket, and someone still listening.

So here I am. Rob Harford. Son, father, lover, runaway, and finally, a man at rest. Not perfect. But still here.

And maybe, just maybe, that’s enough.


Let me know if you’d like a different tone or era for Rob’s life.

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