Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Idealists and ridicule


Willa Cather, “The Best Years,” in The Old Beauty and Others (1948).

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comments: 6

Rachel said...

Happy Birthday, Dad! I love you!

Michael Leddy said...

Thank you, Rachel! <#

Fresca said...

Shade!

Michael Leddy said...

I’m with the idealists here — stuff rolls right off me. : )

Fresca said...

I have a friend who ALWAYS assumes good intentions (at least in the people she likes)--a kind of idealism I'd sometimes like to borrow.

Michael Leddy said...

Easy with people I like (which might help explain why they’re people I like), more difficult with, say, various people in the public eye.