This photo from the Museum of Modern Art.

My husband’s grandfather was a friend of Grant Wood. The artist gave him an original litho, Shriners' Quartet. Alas, it was not framed in acid free materials, pretty bad mat burn around the edges. Couldn’t convince my late mother-in-law to reframe w/ acid free backing & mat. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Yes, people who read a lot have a bigger vocabulary. I will use a word or phrase I think is perfectly normal and then get blindsided that people think I’m purposely acting superior.

And the no-filters version.

You are, as always, adorably fetching. Here’s me. iPhone 15 Pro Max. Edited in Hipstamatic. #hipstamatic #iphonography

Oh, for sure!

Thank you! That’s a generous offer!

The original: Skeleton Amid Roses, 1900, by Edmund Joseph Sullivan, pen and ink drawing, collection of Jacaeber Kastor. #arthistory #drawing #art

Great article about the poster. www.denverartmuseum.org/en/edu/objec...

Definitely.

Yes. Now that AA meeting meet in spaces with No Smoking signs, so many of them rush out after the meeting to desperately light up a cigarette. But, that’s still way better than being drunk.

So glad you did. She still smoked 3 packs a day of cigarettes. Very common. But she lived into her early 80’s. Died at home one night, death certificate said COPD. I wonder, without the years of alcohol, and the smoking, she might have lived to 100!

My mother became sober in her 50’s thru AA. And she had been a heavy drinker for decades. Her major source of calories was alcohol, she was severely malnourished. Bloated belly/spindly legs/hair falling out. Passing out on the street. Her doctor pushed her into AA. And AA saved her life.