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Cathy Rigg

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in Wise, Virginia, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry

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Lee Smith, Ron Rash, Charles Frazier, Barbara Kingsolver ...more

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Cathy Rigg is an author and maker with far more interests than she has time. Born and raised in Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains, her debut novel, THAT WHICH BINDS US, was published by Keylight Books in June of 2025. A work of historical fiction, the story is set in those beloved mountains and centers around five people whose lives intersect during the tumultuous years of the Civil War.

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Day 6: Darkness, and Light, and Advent

IT IS A PRACTICE that brings depth to the season and calm to my soul; a daily watching for the promise that when darkness surrounds, light is to come.

This is Advent, to me.

It’s what we all want, is it not? What we need? To hang on? When life is hard, when the world is overwhelming, when its demands, its sorrows, its hardship are too much to bear—this reminder we are loved all the more. We are seen

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