JFK in an open Studebaker on State Street in Ann Arbor – Oct. 1960
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happy president’s day to one of my favorites
whose words still ring true
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hoping we are relatives somewhere down the line
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“democracy is never a final achievement. it is a call to an untiring effort.”
-john f. kennedy
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credit: photo from the (Bentley Historical Society)
“without debate, without criticism
no administration and no country can succeed
and no republic can survive.”
― john f. kennedy
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photo credit: national archives
we honor him with the words and life of another.
being born a kennedy, and for as long as i can remember, i always assumed that the other kennedys were just cousins who lived out east. when the killing of jfk happened, 50 years ago, i had just turned 6, only 4 days before. i was in first grade and i remember being called in from recess and all of the adults were crying. that was the day i found out that i was not actually a cousin, and that people could die from things other than being very, very old. it was one of those days when my world changed forever.
jfk and family – the ones who i thought to be my cousins
my kennedy family
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives forever. – John Updike
going through my mother’s papers – organizing, passing on, saving gems – i came across an old newspaper, circa 1962, and loved everything about this article:
“Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.”
-John F. Kennedy
I didn't have my glasses on.... 