Long before political correctness entered the lexicon, the Smiths were tackling topics that nearly ended their syndicate run. The strip became a platform for sharp commentary on gun control, military spending, and cultural hypocrisy. Smith pioneered a "Dirty Is Beautiful" philosophy, expressing a visceral worry that children were losing their "dreaming innocence" to the corporate "rat race."
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
A scab
Is a beautiful thing a coin the body has minted, with an invisible motto: In God We Trust. Our body loves us, and, even while the spirit drifts dreaming, It works at mending the damage that we do.
Close your eyes, knowing that healing is a work of darkness, that darkness is a gown of healing, that the vessel of our tremulous venture is lifted by tides we do not control. Faith is health's requisite: we have this fact in life better proof of le bon Dieu.
FROM "ODE TO HEALING" JOHN UPDIKE
A scab
Is a beautiful thing a coin the body has minted, with an invisible motto: In God We Trust. Our body loves us, and, even while the spirit drifts dreaming, It works at mending the damage that we do.
Close your eyes, knowing that healing is a work of darkness, that darkness is a gown of healing, that the vessel of our tremulous venture is lifted by tides we do not control. Faith is health's requisite: we have this fact in life better proof of le bon Dieu.
FROM "ODE TO HEALING" JOHN UPDIKE
A scab
Is a beautiful thing a coin the body has minted, with an invisible motto: In God We Trust. Our body loves us, and, even while the spirit drifts dreaming, It works at mending the damage that we do.
Close your eyes, knowing that healing is a work of darkness, that darkness is a gown of healing, that the vessel of our tremulous venture is lifted by tides we do not control. Faith is health's requisite: we have this fact in life better proof of le bon Dieu.
FROM "ODE TO HEALING" JOHN UPDIKE
Sunday, June 16, 2024
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