Maybe I should print the Katy Fashions photo to go along with this WPA poster on our mantle. One for him and one for her.
Discovered today that the creators of the Archie comics also had a character called Katy Keene. Interesting that besides my name she also has my same initials and is a brunette. Thanks Vermont Ferret for the photo.
John
Rachel told me a story about the time an exasperated teacher asked her students if they even enjoyed writing. After a strained pause a student finally spoke up and said, “I like having written.“
I have to try to remember the good things every day, or the sadness can overtake me.
No one ever gets this reference right and I find it interesting how we have turned this allusion upside down. Shakespeare wrote, “Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York” in Richard III. He meant that the discontent is over. The winter of our discontent, friends, is actually a good thing. It’s the last sad coughing fit of a troubled time before the bright fresh warmth of spring overtakes it.
All of those journalists, politicians, economists, and the like who wail about our country’s problems, claiming that we are descending into darkness, don’t realize that the winter of our discontent is actually a reference to recovery and hope. If what they mean is that we are in the longest most punishing place of unhappiness, they might do better to talk about the summer of our discontent instead.
But people can, have, and will continue to hijack language for their own purposes either by design or misunderstanding, so no sense in complaining too much.
I seriously want a piece of cake from Cafe Latte. Is that too much to ask?
