Borders Bookstores closed all of its stores some months ago. It seems recent that I heard about it on the news. There was a Borders store in downtown San Francisco, in Union Square. That's gone. I remember one we as a family happened to go to every now and then, and read books and later eat outside inside a food court. Now that's gone too.
I understand the reason why Borders closed. It's because they could not be sustainable in the face of more efficient money-making machines such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Borders could not compete anymore and had to close its doors.
Even knowing why things happened as they did, it still saddens me that I can no longer go to those places as I remember them because now I will have to see something different: a cold, uncaring reality. The warmth that I had, empty, taken from me by an invisible hand we all have no problem with.
At least one can see God's hand in nature when he makes an appearance at a concert.
