David Wegman lived a life few would dare dream. In this excerpt from his book Heart Life Music, Kenny Chesney shares his love for this artist, adventurer, and Key West icon.

A poet recalls pears, wasps, and the fierce appetites of youth—where a hunger for more first took root.

From a holiness childhood of altar calls to a professor’s life far from home, Patty Ireland comes back to Tennessee to test her questions against the hymn that once held her—“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.”