Drifts in the Attic

small things forgotten

[maudelynn]

Ziegfeld Beauty Hazel Jennings 

[sonicmute]

hey you

Hey you! How was the boat?

[sonicmute]

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Eleanor Roosevelt (seen here, at the 1956 Democratic Convention)

[k-a-t-i-e-]

Family of a migrant fruit worker from Tennessee.

Winter Haven, Florida

January, 1937

[sonicmute]

...dinnertime, Tifton, Georgia, 1909....

[sonicmute]

...jeepers, creepers...

[hoodoothatvoodoo-deactivated201]

Photo by Louise Dahl-Wolf, 1939

[sonicmute]

...sideshow geek chewing head of a snake...

Louisiana, 1938

[sonicmute]

...Newsboy selling the Austin Statesman, Austin, Texas, October, 1913...

[sonicmute]

...Prince Albert in his hand...

[sonicmute]

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Grace Abbott

[sonicmute]

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Charles Baudelaire

[sonicmute]

"Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty son-of-a-bitch. Okie means you're scum. Don't mean nothing itself, it's the way they say it." - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 18

[thingsivealwayswantedtodo]

Because I am vain. Because I am squishy from that extra Hot Dog On A Stick, yet still starved for attention. Because I am needy and I am lonely, and the only ones around to wash it from me are this bathtub and this cheap camera.

[sonicmute]

...you should not turn away

[sonicmute]

...I am the shoulder you should lean on

[sonicmute]

The Whipped-Cream Incident.

How were you to know,

alone in a frothy

milky mist

That someone else

made me

stalk off

Like

the Crown Prince of Narcissism

not you.

I did not look back,

Just pushed open the door,

And walked down Murray.

I should have

And your remembering makes that plain

I should have looked back

Should have run back

And given you a hug.

You might be surprised that

I remember that Sunday morning

As well

or better