Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from it more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.
(John Updike, Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, 1989, Ch. 6)
Friday, July 8, 2011
Small-Town Still Life
Here's a little tableau that presented itself to my wandering eyes last weekend in Jim Thorpe, PA. Kind of a Travelocity ad for rednecks, I suppose.
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