"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know... How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien." - Plato
I'm pretty sure the men in this picture are my great grandfather and my great, great grandfather on my father's mother's side. Is that convoluted enough for you? I don't think I'm related to the horse... at least not the front end.
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posted by K-nine @ 00:00
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A divorced northeastern North Carolina farmboy back in Carolina via Washington DC, a small Carribean island and Texas. Mostly self-educated I am the product of public schools, a few trips to college, the school of life (& hard knocks), a WWII veteran father who could build anything, and a Sunday School teacher mother who loved to read anything she could lay her hands on. As the youngest of five I am no stranger to having to defend my actions (not to mention myself).
"Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it."
-Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
5 Comments:
Look at that Gibson Girl hairdo! That woman had a TON Of hair to get it to do that!
Women in my family have thick hair... Although I have no idea what a "Gibson girl" is.
And although they look Italian for some reason, they are scots-Irish. Go figure.
The Gibson girl was popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s. She was what was considered the epitome of youth and beauty back then. Her hair was piled high in what you see of the woman in the back, 2nd from the left. Good images: http://www.google.com/search?q=gibson+girl+hair&hl=en&biw=1140&bih=550&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=PNBqTrynLOzK0AGS3ImUBQ&ved=0CCIQsAQ
Sorry about the crappy linkage.
Anyway, this is how I wanted to wear my hair for my weddding, some 100 years after it was fashionable, but... whatever... it was not to be. My hair was never thick enough.
BTW, 10:1 says Red knows about the Gibson Girl.
I see... Got it.
I'm sure she does.
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