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“Ordinary Soil brings to haunting life the desperate realities of the American heartland but also offers a glimpse into a better future… a call to action for all of us.”
WOODY HARRELSON
A terrorized, addicted farmer’s suicide attempt under a rotting burial elm unearths his family’s dark history, exposing diseased generational roots of abuse and abandonment. But strength, light, and hope also wait, deep in the ordinary soil of the Oklahoma panhandle.
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I’m a writer.
Of books and songs.
I’m a singer.
Of my truth and maybe yours.
I’m a rider.
Of horses and waves.
I live with four horses, two dogs, two chickens, and two beautiful humans on a small ranch near the California coast.
Thanks for being here.
“Alex Woodard is one of the greatest writers I’ve ever discovered.”
DR. WAYNE DYER
RENOWNED MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
AND #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
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For The Sender
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Grammy®-winning singers and songwriters took your letters and turned them into songs?
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Praise
“Throughout ‘Living Halfway,’ Alex writes the same way he sings: not always pretty, and his words can tear your heart out of your body. But I forgive him for that, because what he writes is beautiful, and real, and true.”
ROBERT HOLDEN,PHD
Happiness Expert And Author Of “Shift Happens! And Finding Love Everywhere”