Busy days for Mr Blackbird

 

Busy days for Mr Blackbird
with three kids demanding to be fed.
My pleasure to support him with suppling food.

Beers & Books CCXXIV – Nell McCafferty

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Nell McCafferty * 28 March 1944

Beers & Books CCXXIII – John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men
*
Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)

It's not about basketball

Steve Kerr * 27 September 1965

Hunger for life

Sometimes ...

 

there is no need for words ...

Beers & Books CCXXII – Thomas Valentin

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Thomas Valentin ( 23 January 1922 – 22 December 1980)

Beers & Books CCXXI – Heinrich Mann

Der Untertan

"My father, after all, was a nationalist."
*
The youth of King Henri Quatre
&
The completion of  King Henri Quatre

"The Bourbon King (i.e. Henry Quatre)
was first ambassador of reason and human happiness."
*

Heinrich Mann (27 March 1871 – 11 March 1950)

Beers & Books CCXX – Gabriele Wohmann

"There's also a satisfaction
that takes place in the mind: thinking."

Gabriele Wohmann (21 May 1932 – 22 June 2015)

Beers & Books CCXIX – J.L. Carr

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J.L. Carr (20 May 1912 – 26 February 1994)

Beers & Books CCXVIII – Studs Terkel

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's.
A whole country has lost its memory.
When it can't remember yesterday,
a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008)

Laughing Lhursday* – Salvatore Dalí

Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989)

* [For first time visitors]: Typo in the title? Nah. It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Just be clear!

with thanks to my dear friend Erkan.

Beers & Books CCXVII – Thomas Piketty

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty * 7 May 1971