Tales, Truths, and Hybrids
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Welcome to the Depot
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Your hub for the stories and tales from the collections of Tales, Truths, and Hybrids is The Depot.
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The TTH Railway leaves the Depot daily and is your passage to it all.
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You can even stop in at the dining car for a meal if you want. The chef has prepared snacks for the short term rider and full course offerings for the full day traveler. Whatever you choose, you'll find the food chocked full of the chef's favorite ingredients - humor, silliness and exaggeration, common sense and wisdom, curiosity and mystery, theology, truth (filtered and unfiltered), and limited facts.
The schedule board below gives the stops for the TTH Railway. You can let the conductor know where you want to get off by clicking your stop's button below.
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Currently, there are 56 stories and tales in this collection. Pastor Arnold Schmidt leads you through many of the stories from the small town of Cedar Crossing and the country parish of St. John Lutheran Church. The mix of tales is a potluck of humor, adventure, moral and theological points to ponder, as well as a whole lot more from the unique characters that make up Cedar Crossing.
You won't find much of scientific value in working your garden with this collection of 40 stories and tales. As any experienced gardener knows, though, working the deeper soil will bring new perspectives. Consume the works here given and you will not look at gardening the same way or at least you'll have fun doing it.
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There are 24 stories and tales in this collection that serves as a repository of the stranger works in the Archives. You will need to be prepared to stretch your imagination some when you take in what this collection from a little farther out has to offer.
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The fiery orange setting sun will bring a new tomorrow for the pioneers and settlers heading west across the vast land of America. Follow the dusty trail with these 32 stories and tales that the Old West has to offer. From tragic to humorous, this collection is but a morsel of the experiences of those brave souls who often left everything to find greener pasture.
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This new collection has 9 stories and tales to offer from the nimble fingers of those in the sewing room. As with many of the stories in other collections, this mix of works gives some different views beyond needle and thread.
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Enjoy the adventures of Pastor Travis Sawyer as he takes the traditional pastoral duties to a whole other world. A man of action, he takes the Gospel well outside the parish, and in so doing has earned the reputation of a 'Rogue Shepherd'. This is another newer collection with 10 chapters.
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If you like short points to ponder, then consider these 53+ pages of nuggets that Seeds of Thought has to offer. Many are the plants for future stories.
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This collection of floral images and short verses may stimulate your appetite for longer works, help you start out the day, or just enjoy the day around you from a different perspective.
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Wilber, the head squirrel at Squirrel Gardens, doesn't talk very much, although he will chatter up a storm if a cat invades his territory. He prefers to show the creative hand of God through visual collections. Enjoy the entries he has posted to date.
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​​​​​​​​​ALL ABOARD!!
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