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“If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.” — Lewis: Learning in Wartime

Five favourite US authors in no particular order: Wendell Berry Robert Penn Warren James Still Louis L'Amour Allen Tate

BREAKING: Hollywood director Steven Spielberg says the truth about UFOs will "dislocate society" and cause humans to question their religions.

I found Peter Cushing

Frank Newell spent 38 years in the military. When he came home to his family farm in North Carolina, the bluebirds were gone. When Frank was young, the fence posts around the pastures in Warrenton were wood, and Eastern bluebirds nested in them by the hundreds. When he came home decades later, the posts had been replaced with metal. The bluebirds had nowhere to nest and were disappearing. Bluebirds can't excavate their own nest cavities. They depend on old woodpecker holes and natural rot in dead wood, both of which vanish when a landscape gets tidied up. So Frank started building them nest boxes by hand, 25 a week, with donated lumber and a Sears table saw that lasted him 33 years. The word spread, volunteers joined, and businesses donated wood. The Eastern Bluebird Rescue Group, which Frank founded in 1996, has now built and distributed more than 500,000 bluebird houses, sold at or below cost. Warren County is now believed to hold the largest concentration of Eastern bluebirds in the United States. Frank Newell has since passed away, but the group he started is still going, run by his daughter and son-in-law and a few dozen volunteers.

"Because God is the living God, he can hear. Because he is a loving God, he will hear." — Charles Spurgeon