I love the USPS. I love their stamps, and right now this is my favorite stamp.
This quote explains a lot!
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Thoughts On Shakespeare
Recent events recalled to mind William Shakespeare. This picture is a photograph from my computer screen, of the article in Wikipedia about William Shakespeare.
Introduced to him early by our mother, who read on of his plays to us when we were young children, having seen “Othello” enacted with Richard Burton when I was in high school or college, and having purchased an inexpensive book of his complete works when our own kids were young, I had not thought much about him. I did see Verdi’s operatic interpretation “Otello”, and heard some famous quotes,
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
—Hamlet in Hamlet
“This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
—Polonius in Hamlet
You can see these and many more Shakespearean quotes online, and on other websites.
In April 2015, we passed the 451st anniversary of his birth. I am so impressed at his astute insights.
Dorothea Lange and the “Migrant Mother”
Recently PBS portrayed the life and work of Dorothea Lange. Known as a vital vibrant woman, Dorothea Lange lives on through her work showing the human condition as it is.
Image by Dorothea Lange in 1936, this phtotgraph was downloaded from Wikipedia on September 1, 2014. This woman kept her identity secret for the rest of her Dorothea Lange’s life. The woman did not want to embarrass her children by publicizing her name. Ben Phelan posted the story of the woman who revealed her identity as Florence Thompson, late in life, at which time she made the following comment.
The Migrant Mother’s retrospective comment, made close to 40 years later. Interestingly, this much distributed photograph became part of the lore of this country, being much copied. It was taken in the tradition of Dorothea Lange’s work, to include a larger story with the subjects of every photograph. However, it seems 100 percent certain that Dorothea Lange did not know at the time that this work was going to become perhaps the most iconic image of her career.