Quote of the Day
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
Image ... Storefront church mural, Dorchester.
Friday, March 11, 2011
March 11. 2011
Quote of the Day
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
Image ... Storefront church mural, Dorchester.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
March 10, 2011
Happy birthday Alexia!
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Henry David Thoreau
In Boston and its environs King was walking in the backyard of one of his most important intellectual influences, Henry David Thoreau. He and "this courageous New Englander" had first crossed paths while he was in his teens at Morehouse College in Atlanta as the World War II was ending.
When I went to Morehouse as a freshman in 1944, my concern for racial and economic justice was already substantial.... To be continued.
Image ... Witch hazel. Fenway Victory Gardens, Boston.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
January 17, 2011
Happy 82nd birthday, Dr. King! We invite our readers to celebrate the King holiday with Dr. King in Boston, the story of Martin's very important years in Boston while studying at B.U. in the early 50's.
Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the 'fight with fire' method which you suggest is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community. Physical force can repress, restrain, coerce, destroy, but it cannot create and organize anything permanent; only love can do that. Yes, love - which means understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill, even for one's enemies - is the solution to the race problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1957.
Image ... Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
January 16, 2011
Quote of the Day
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
Thomas Carlyle
Image ... Neponset River. Lower Mills, Dorchester.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
January 15, 2011
Working at Pavement, as always, my morning hang. Toasted onion bagel with jalapeno cream cheese - perfection. Going through the photo archives (extensive) selecting images for The New Yorker pitch.
Quote of the Day
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
John Donne
Image ... Make Way for Ducklings. Boston Public Garden.
Friday, January 14, 2011
January 14, 2011
Working at Pavement preparing the pitch to The New Yorker. Reviewing and selecting from the big body of work, discovering and editing overlooked images, drafting the written pitch.
Quote of the Day
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Image ... Window at the AT&T building. Belvidere Street, Back Bay.
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