Woody Guthrie's birthday today it is. His mother brought him into this vale of tears in July, 1912. Yes," he'd write & sing, "as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen”
I'll be thinking of that wise, rambling song-spinner today and the day will be better for it.
A cranky, quirky, funny dame, a cronette, divided in demeanor between fizzy optimism and dispirited melancholy (I treat the latter with new projects, the latest being an early-18th century gentleman's coat that I sewed for myself out of a length of blue denim, decorated w/ brass buttons.) An entertaining speaker I am, to many a gym or library full of students, a fine writer about dead people and things historical, a middling harmonica player and illustrator of many a book, 40 or so & counting.
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