I hope you all have an enjoyable and restful holiday weekend! I will not be checking the blog posts for several days. See you all next week.
Here is a US stamp when we still did engraving on stamps—miss that, but we do get forever stamps.
Lila B
“Labour is Life: from the inmost heart of the Worker
rises his god-given Force, the sacred celestial Life-essence
breathed into him by Almighty God; from his inmost heart awakens
him to all nobleness—to all knowledge, ‘self-knowledge’ and
much else, so soon as Work fitly begins.”
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Anyway, that engraving is lovely, but it just doesn’t cry out ‘Murica quite like a bald eagle gradating into stars and stripes.
“Only through disengagement can you gain the space—the proper perspective—to truly intervene. If you directly intervene, you never act in empty space.” — Slavoj Žižek
“Labour is Life: from the inmost heart of the Worker
rises his god-given Force, the sacred celestial Life-essence
breathed into him by Almighty God; from his inmost heart awakens
him to all nobleness—to all knowledge, ‘self-knowledge’ and
much else, so soon as Work fitly begins.”
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Anyway, that engraving is lovely, but it just doesn’t cry out ‘Murica quite like a bald eagle gradating into stars and stripes.