"a line of gold thread"

Happy birthday wishes to two wonderful people, thehornedgod and baylorsr. I hope you both have a fantastic day and many more to come! Happy early birthday wishes to the terrific lin4gondor, as well. May your birthday be all you could wish, and your next year the best yet!


A couple of shopping/sales links:

* Valancourt Books is currently offering both a preorder discount on their new June releases (including The Magic Goblet) and several limited-time special offers on older releases. Learn more here.

* ailing_prophecy is holding a new contest at Mirror Box, Inc. Entries for the drawing must be in by noon (EST) on June 23. Learn more here.


And last but not least, Happy Father's Day to everyone who is a father (biological, step, or otherwise, to two-footed or four-footed children)!

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery