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📖 Story / Fiction · An Imaginative Sequence

The Bridge to Hawaii

A bridge that exists only in story, reaching across the Pacific.

No bridge connects the Oregon Coast and Hawaii. In the imaginative world of The EVERgreen Chronicles, one appears anyway, because some distances are measured in more than miles.

The bridge is a memory-bridge. It stands for the ways love reaches people who are far away, or who are no longer with us.

🌉 Connection
Distance overcome.

👪 Family
The people we belong to.

🌌 Grief and memory
Carrying those we have lost.

🤲 Reconciliation
Crossing what once divided.

🌺 Belonging
Being welcomed on the other side.

🏡 Home
Where the bridge leads.

Story geography: the Bridge to Hawaii is fictional. Any illustration of it is an EVERgreen landscape, not a real place.

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Our golden lamp: in loving memory of Grandpa Kenneth and Grandma Carolyn Smith