February 5, 2026
This set of portraits from the 1890s provides a very good lesson: These people posed in the overly serious manner of their time, but they were playful too, and that side of them broke through easily enough, as we see here. The people of the past were ... Read more

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  • March 6, 2026
    This image speaks very clearly. The gentleman was a tourist in a poor country and ran across a very poor girl with no shoes. And so he took off his own and offered them to her. In the modern West, “compassion” is forced upon people, and i ... Read more

  • March 6, 2026
    We live in a time of great abundance, which is a wonderful thing, and not something to apologize for. That said, we do sometimes lose appreciation for smaller things that remain wonderful. This is a boy who couldn’t get shoes during World War I ... Read more

  • March 6, 2026
    This man grew up very poor, and one of the great disappointments of his childhood was that he couldn’t get this lunchbox like the other kids. From an adult perspective a lunchbox is trivial, but to a small child it may not be. And sometimes tho ... Read more
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