The schoolteacher wife is off for the summer, which means a major household reorg. Out of the domestic dust storm came my late mother's portfolio from her advertising copywriter days back in the mid-1960s.
How about this public-service ad headline, over a soft-focus photograph of a sleeping child:
If you feel sure civil rights
is moving fast enough,
try to imagine your children waking up
Negro tomorrow morning.
is moving fast enough,
try to imagine your children waking up
Negro tomorrow morning.
not sure, but it seems like you're painting your wife as the homemaker, spring cleaning type. thanks for that, i needed a good laugh today...
anyway, did your mom write that headline/article? i love it and would love to be able to know her today.
Posted by: k bosch | June 24, 2009 at 01:33 PM
k bosch, that's what she's been this summer. It's been refreshing! Jarring, but refreshing!
Yep, that was Mom's.
Posted by: David Murray | June 24, 2009 at 01:56 PM
I'd have liked to know your Mom too David - mainly because she said [in a time when it just "wasn't done"] things like "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!"
I'm pretty sure I'd love your Mom almost as much as I love mine!!
Posted by: Kristen | June 25, 2009 at 08:25 AM