05/28/2019
Our store is now closed. Thank you for your business over the years, your friendship, conversation, and shared love of reading. May God bless you all and keep you.
You people have been life changing, heart affirming, sometimes challenging, and overall, the greatest value to having this store. We often joked that we talk to people for a living and sell books on the side. On a more personal level, I want to thank you for allowing me to follow my calling in life, sharing in the human spirit and in books with you. I'll leave you with a few of my favorite quotes of all time. Please steal them and share them, maybe try to live them.
"Where two or mine are gathered, I am in the midst of them." --Matthew 18:20
"Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see." ---Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes were Watching God
"“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” --—Wilma Rudolph
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” – James Baldwin
and lastly,
"Be good to one another, and read books, REAL books-put them in your children's hands, your neighbors' children's hands, leave them in offices, go to the library. Keep books alive and well, not as decoration, but as food for your mind, your spirit, and your soul. Books make us thinkers, and feelers, and connect us to one another and the world. There will always be stories. KEEP READING THEM." --Ginny Jewell, Acorn Books
