"Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies’ heads. Wherever they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablish literacy and breathed new life into exhausted literary culture of Europe.
And that is how the Irish saved civilization."
Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role form the Fall of Rom e to the Rise of Medieval Europe -- page 196
God created the pysical world and called it "Good."
That includes money.
A forehead slapping book that I ought to re-read every year. Written from surveys of over 1000 men, Shaunti Feldhahn (along with her husband Jeff) explain what every wife and woman ought to understand about the men in their lives.
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