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Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood- Pablo Neruda.
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On our community service mission to Sapang Bato, we spent the entire day talking to the families and knowing about their lives. These kids followed us all the way to the bridge that led to the tribe. These are Aeta children, innocent and carefree.
"The Children's Book" story anthology edited by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Appears to be an edition that was published every few years by different publishers by adding and subtracting some of the stories, poems or pictures. Illustrated by many well-known artists of the day. This edition copyrighted by Cupples & Leon Company of New York in 1915.
Childhood dreams - #china #gorilla #kingkong #look #noir #phototravel #portrait #qliebin #travel #monkey #baby
I know that Halloween pictures from childhood are pretty much all going to be absurd, but I found this one particularly amusing. The worst part- I can't even claim that my friend wanted to be Batman and I HAD to be Robin. I actually preferred to be Robin. Who wants to be Robin for Halloween? I think you have to admit that my little slipper thingies are pretty stellar. And, yes, those are tights. You might not be able to tell in the pic, but they are. Doesn't get more weenie than this. Let me know if you want another non-Halloween one. Just like you, I've got WAY TOO MANY embarrassing childhood pictures to choose from.
-Brett Savage
DALE MESSICK
Dalia "Dale" Messick (April 11, 1906 – April 5, 2005) was the first woman syndicated comic strip artist in the United States. She was best known as the creator of Brenda Starr, which at its peak in the 1950s ran in 250 newspapers.
Dale Messick was born on April 11, 1906 in South Bend, Indiana to a seamstress and commercial artist. She had an interest in writing and drawing since childhood. She studied briefly at the Ray Commercial Art School in Chicago but left to begin a career as a professional artist.
She began working for a Chicago greeting card company and was successful but quit when her boss lowered her pay during the Great Depression. She moved to New York City and found work at another greeting card company at a higher salary, and began assembling a portfolio of comic strips after work.
Messick was not the first female comic strip creator; Nel Brinkley, Gladys Parker, and Edwina Dumm had all achieved success in the field. But there was still a bias against women and Messick decided to change her first name to Dale to help get her work seen by editors. She produced a number of ideas for strips with titles such as Weegee, Mimi the Mermaid, Peg and Pudy, the Struglettes, and Streamline Babies, none of which were picked up for publication
Brenda Starr
Messick created the character of Brenda Starr in 1940, naming it after a debutante from the 1930s and basing her appearance on Rita Hayworth. Messick wanted to produce a strip with a female protagonist; she decided a career as a reporter would allow her character to travel and have adventures, adventures more glamorous than those actually experienced by most reporters. She later commented on this in a 1986 article about her in the San Francisco Chronicle:
I used to get letters from girl reporters saying that their lives were nowhere near as exciting as Brenda's. I told them that if I made Brenda's life like theirs, nobody would read it.
Her break came when she came to the attention of another woman, Mollie Slott, who worked as a "girl Friday" (à la His Girl Friday) for New York Daily News publisher (and syndicate head) Joseph Medill Patterson. Patterson, reputedly biased against women cartoonists, wouldn't sign her up for daily publication in the News, but he accepted Brenda Starr, Reporter for syndication as a Sunday comic, and it made its debut on June 30, 1940. It was quickly a success; its mixture of adventure and romance was popular with both male and female readers.
Messick went on to create a number of other comic strips but none achieved the success of Brenda Starr. The only other strip which she worked on which is generally remembered was Perry Mason which she illustrated.
Messick retired from producing Brenda Starr in 1980. Ramona Fradon (artist) and Linda Sutter (writer) took over the strip from 1980 to 1985. June Brigman (artist) and Mary Schmich (writer) have done the strip from 1985 to the present. Messick wasn't impressed with her successors' versions of Starr, according to a 1998 quote in the Sonoma County Independent:
Now it doesn't look like Brenda at all. She looks more like she works at a bank. No glamour, no curves, no fashion — but it's still going pretty good.
Following her retirement from Brenda Starr, she moved to Oakmont, California to be near her daughter and grandchildren. She continued to work and created a new strip, Granny Glamour, which ran in Oakmont Gardens Magazine, a local weekly magazine. It ended after she had a stroke in 1998 and couldn't draw any more.
In 1995, Brenda Starr was one of twenty comic strips honored by a series of United States postage stamps; Messick was the only living creator.
She received the National Cartoonists Society's Story Comic Book Award for 1975 and their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 for her work on Brenda Starr.
Cartoonist Dale Messick Dies; Creator of 'Brenda Starr' Strip
By Patricia Sullivan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Dale Messick, 98, whose glamorous, spirited, redheaded reporter Brenda Starr cracked open the comics pages for adventure-seeking female characters and cartoonists, died April 5 after a series of strokes. She was at her daughter's home in Penngrove, Calif.
Ms. Messick, who often described Brenda as her alter ego, created the quick-witted character in 1940. She drew and wrote "Brenda Starr, Reporter" for 43 years, until the syndicate that owned it pressured her to retire. The strip, which at its peak appeared in 250 newspapers.
Dale Messick
(Dalia Messick)
(11/4/1906 - 5/4/2005, USA)
... like Holywood....have no clue why I had written this in this album I made some 6 years ago...I guess it simply rimes good!
Designer: Jia Xingtong (贾兴桐)
1973, January
Childhood
Tongnian (童年)
Call nr.: BG D25/142 (Landsberger collection)
More? See: chineseposters.net
1. Dry boof head molly, 2. crack of dawn, 3. Blues Clues, 4. dolly day 15 - stitch in my messy room, 5. Little Gymnast Tala!, 6. Untitled, 7. Hey, old buddy, lookit this!, 8. H is for Horse, 9. Diamonds are a girl's best friend, 10. IMG_339, 11. the-horsez, 12. HDR cesso
1. What was your nickname as a child? Boof Head
2. What was your favorite food as a child? Chicken
3. What was the theme of your favorite childhood birthday? Blues Clues party
4. What were you punished most often for ? Messy room
5. What special talent or skill did you have? Gymnastics
6. What was the name of your first best friend? Ashley
7. What was your favorite cartoon character or superhero? Pooh
8. What did you want to be when you grew up? Riding School Teacher
9. Who did you look up to? Dennis (my Dad)
10. What elementary school did you attend? Poonia
11. What was your favorite game to play? Horsez
12. What was your biggest fear as a child? Toilets
New or old - I love them all
1. Tiny Tim, 2. vintage Japanese advertising, 3. Hinny, 4. Rain Blow Brite, 5. Vintage Koeda Grandparents House, 6. Fisher-Price-Turtle, 7. lacing shoe music box (detail), 8. chime ball, 9. Una, 10. fisher-price super jet #415 (1953), 11. My New Toot - Toot, 12. wip-world in my hands, 13. If you turn your head I will tell you a secret, 14. Untitled, 15. school desk letter tray, 16. fisher price puppy, 17. Jingle Elephant, Bossy Bell, 18. Toy Stove, 19. Childhood Revisited (2), 20. Vintage Fisher Price Pony Music Box, 21. fisher-price nosey pup #445 (1956), 22. Little Boy Blue Music Box, 23. Vintage Fisher Price Pelican, 24. turtle king, 25. Fisher Price TV-Radio
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
And here, back on Mount Aggie, I am already thrall to the gods of Entomology.
As a small child, I always wondered why my father, whose childhood passion had always been butterflies and moths, had become a botanist, or a plant taxonomist, to be precise. It was only when I reached my teenage years, flirting with a self-consciously anachronistic herbal hippiedom in the 1980s, and discovering the wonders of insectivorous plants, that I began to understand his decision.
We did, on occasion, kill the moths. We used the leaves of the cherry laurel trees, planted for the purpose at the side of our house, battered and bottled inside one of my mother’s used stockings, reeking with the bitter almond smell of prussic acid. The poison left their wings relaxed, ready for setting, and afterwards, the moths were conveyed like jewels or captured souls to the insect cabinets, dovetailed by my carpenter-grandfather, which were already filled with my father’s childhood insect collection.
Living in insecticide-ridden England under the Common Agricultural Policy, where habitat destruction has become a way of life, and even “eco-housing” is just an excuse to tear up the green-belt, I would never dream of killing a moth, but then, I labelled them lovingly on strips of tracing paper, and stared at them for hours. I believe I lost this passion for collecting early on – about the time we acquired a camera with macro-capabilities – and after this, I regarded the camera as one of the most benign of human inventions. The little souls were somehow captured but not imprisoned.
The Eucalyptus-clad Brindabella landscape stretches out before us, seemingly endless. There is enough wind for me to be wearing a cabled jumper, knitted by my grandmother. The butterfly net is forgotten, clutched in the hand of a child smitten with awe, and, on this dizzying height, with the dawnings of a vertigo that has never quite left me alone.
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the Children's Hour.
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"The Children's Hour"
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Big Bang Star Melissa Rauch Rauncy Past [racey childhood video] www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/02/26/melissa-rauch-sh...
Location: Mukim Putat, Kodiang, Kedah, Malaysia
Edit; Lighting adjustment
My childhood friend’s house (Her name is Siti, I guess.. haha) . His father is believe to be my father’s cousin, living together in the small kampong (village). When I was a kid, my friend and I always play around the kampong happily. Nearby this house, there are two wells – a normal type well and pam well built during the British colonization. Nobody no longer live in this house as the family had already move to the government reserved land (kawasan tanah rancangan KEDA). Living in a kampong during my childhood time teach me a lot things and experience that can’t be erased. Their lifestyle totally different from the city or even small town lifestyle. Luckily this kampong still maintain its identity as a paddy field land although development seems to grow quite fast right now.
Story in bahasa Malaysia:
ni rumah kawan sepermainan aku time aku kecik.. kalu tk silap aku ayah die cousin ayah aku. ntah la.. aku pn tktau sgt psal adek bradik abah aku ni. nama kawan aku tu siti kut. ktorg slalu main2 dan g jejalan kt kampung tu. skg dah tkde org tggl kt rmh ni. diorg 1 famili pn dh pindah pegi kampung KEDA.. tanah rancangan.. dkt rmh die ni ade 2 telaga.. telaga biasa yg kne pakai timba ambik air dan perigi pam.. sonok woo main kt sini dlu2.. =D ohhh, pstu kan, before smpai rumah siti ni, aku slalu amek shortcut jln dgn lalu kt rmh jiran nenek aku. aku pggil tok hasan dgn isteri dia... tok hasan ni lumpuh, isteri dia sgt baik. rmh diorg pn mcm ni gak, papan.. atap zink.. aku pagi2 slalu ikut nenek aku kutip kabu (cotton) pstu masuk hutan kt kwsn antara rmh ktorg... rmh tok hasan ni pn best gak nk lepak2.. diorg ni terer wat bnde2 dr mengkuang dan rotan.. mengkuang byk leh dpt kt sungai.. mengkuang tu diorg manually prepare.. letak colour smua.. dlu2 isteri tok hasan ni ade ajar wat tikar mengkuang la, kipas la.. sgt cantek.. ohh, 1 lg aku plg ingt.. org2 tua kampung ni suka makan sireh dgn kapur dan buah pinang. aku tk ingt penah try ke tak.. 1 lg diorg suka hisap rokok tembakau dan cerut (rokok besar wrna hitam)..