Time Passages - On this day 1958

Did you know...

 that at the age of 42 Elvis Presley's mother, Gladys, died of a heart attack arising from liver complications at a Memphis hospital. Ironically, in 1977, on August 16th, Elvis himself died from medical complications at the age of 42.

Wisdom

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There is no short-cut, no patent tram-road, to wisdom.

After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

-George Eliot

Movie - NOTTING HILL

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All you women surely know the Movie “NOTTING HILL” and I would guess the men in your life probably had to watch it with you, or at least familiar with it. Beautiful Julia Roberts as Anna Scott, portraying, well, a movie star. And another favorite of mine in this movie is wonderful Hugh Grant playing the bookstore owner. Well it is one of my favorite movies that just happened to be on lifetime last night, so I had to watch it for the hundredth time.

Anyway it inspired me to do this poster.

Hope you like!!

Time Passages - July 13, 1958 - Postal Service

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The U.S. Postal Service started charging customers 4 cents to mail a first-class letter anywhere within the U.S.

The U.S. Post Office first began service in 1775.

There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

 

Did you know there were  many other variations that were printed in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Wikipedia shares that "Marjorie Ainsworth Decker published a Christian version of the rhyme in her "The Christian Mother Goose Book" published in 1978 which goes like this:

There was an old woman

Who lived in a shoe,

She had so many children,

And loved them all, too.

She said, "Thank you Lord Jesus,

For sending them bread."

Then kissed them all gladly

and sent them to bed.

The Abstract picture I shared with you above is a piece I did that reminds me of this Nursery Rhyme.