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Big Four Bridge
In the Caretaker Trilogy, the Big Four Bridge, formerly affectionately known as “the bridge to nowhere” before it was repurposed for pedestrians, hides an entrance to the domain of the Merlady, the supernatural gangster who rules from this part of the Ohio River.
Sunday Inspiration: Keeping Silent
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
—Victor Hugo
Sunday Inspiration: Our True Destiny
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone… We find it with another.
—Thomas Merton
Sunday Inspiration: Kindling a Light
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
—Carl Jung
Sunday Inspiration: What Lies within Us
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
—Henry D. Haskins
Sunday Inspiration: Grace
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
—Flannery O’Connor
Sunday Inspiration: Books
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
—Ray Bradbury
Sunday Inspiration: Indifference
Indifference is the one thing that makes the angels weep.
—William James
Sunday Inspiration: The Soul
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
—Marcus Aurelius
Black Friday?
On this Black Friday, I’d like to simply remind you that Bookshop.org is a fine way to buy books while supporting local bookstores. If that’s something you’d be interested in doing.
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