We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.
Angeles Arrien
“Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.”
Robert Southey
August 2, 1899. “Sloop Columbia, steel mast carried away.” 8×10 inch glass negative by John S. Johnston, Detroit Photographic Company.
Circa 1906. “Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
San Francisco circa 1922. “Simplex, Public Library.” Wearing the monogram of one C.E.M. 5×7 inch glass negative by Christopher Helin.
Paul took this from our driveway on August 16, 2016.
Washington, D.C., circa 1919. “Southern Apartments, 123 G Street S.W. Formerly a Civil War barracks, stood near jail.” 8×10 glass negative.
Washington, D.C., 1919. “The Brighton, 2123 California Street.” Come play with us! 8×10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company.
Montgomery County, Maryland, 1925. “Fortune teller — Glen Echo Park Co.” National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
John Milton
Paradise Lost
“You know that feeling when you just have to go out and find someone new or the world will die on you?”
John Le Carre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” Robert Holden
“You don’t let go of an unhealthy relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you finally start caring about you.”
Charles Orlando
It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling,
writer
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882).
“It’s not about saying the right things. It’s about doing the right things.”
Unknown
Washington, D.C., circa 1919. “Children’s Hospital.” (“Nurse, the doctor said they need I.V.’s”) National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
August 1927. Winchester, Virginia. “Boy on elephant.” View full size.
YOUNGSTERS APPLAUD EDUCATED ELEPHANT AT SHENANDOAH VALLEY FAIR
Tillie, the elephant who says “Papa” when her trainer speaks to her, was the hit of the afternoon. The talented pachyderm is one of a troupe of five performing elephants whose daily stunts will be one of the big features of this year’s fair in Winchester. According to Dan Noonan, her trainer, Tillie is more than 100 years old. Her act was received with great applause.
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