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The Jungle: Banned Books That Shaped America

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Moby-Dick: Banned Books That Shaped America

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Catch-22: Banned Books That Shaped America

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September 26, 2016

Happy 142nd Birthday Lewis Hine

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The Great Gatsby: Banned Books That Shaped America

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Leaves of Grass: Banned Books That Shaped America

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: Banned Books That Shaped America

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Today on waldina.com, I am celebrating the 120th birthday of the writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. It should come as no surprise that I enjoy his work, his narratives, and his unapologetically messy life. Risks. Chances. Consequences. His life story is a cautionary tale of underutilized talent, gigantic love, and addiction. I have the last sentence of The Great Gatsby tattoo’d on my left forearm, it is also his and Zelda’s epitaph. To me, it means less about escaping from your past and more about knowing the path from it will be a struggle, but we keep moving forward. Until researching his birthday, I had no idea that The Great Gatsby had been made into a film five times over the last 90 years (1973 being my personal favorite). The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that he has left. #FScottFitzgerald #TheGreatGatsby #ThisSideOfParadise #TheLastTycoon #TenderIsTheNight #rebel #PNW #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #seattle #dailyinspiration #StyleIcon #History #Legend Today is the 103rd birthday of Frances Farmer. There is something about her, the biopic with Jessica Lange helped push her into cult icon status for a lot of people, including me. Seattle girl, free thinker, rule breaker and getting a raw deal from Hollywood all inspire other artists. They understand the misunderstood. She is the glamorous Hollywood misfit queen of all misfits. I think of her several times a week when I walk by the employee side entrance to to the Olympic Hotel in Seattle, a door I know that she went through hundreds of times in the early 1950’s when she took a job sorting laundry after her release from a mental hospital. How she must have felt going in that side door when only 14 years earlier, that very same hotel had held the world premier of her film “Come and Get It.” I think of that aching feeling of betrayal and abandonment and the complexities of mental instability, it must have been crippling. (It is a similar feeling that I have when I am driving home and pass Kurt Cobain’s old house and see the bench in “Kurt’s Park” covered with flowers and burning candles. Only fitting that I have connected the two, Nirvana has the song”Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle” in their catalog.) The world is a better place because she was in it and still feels the loss that she has left. #FrancesFarmer #seattle #nirvana #rebel #PNW #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #seattle #dailyinspiration #StyleIcon #History #Legend Today on Waldina, I am celebrating  the 111th birthday of the actress Greta Garbo. If you haven’t seen Anna Karenina lately (or ever), please do yourself a favor and watch it. I just read a recount of a dinner party with Clifton Webb, his mother, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Porfirio Rubirosa, Eleanore and Brian Aherne, and Garbo. It seems unreal to think groups of people like that congregate to eat and talk, like normal people that may live down the street. We should all be so lucky to have such dinner parties. The world is a better place because she was in it and still feels the loss that she has left. #GretaGarbo #unbothered #PNW #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #seattle #dailyinspiration #StyleIcon #History #Legend Waldina.com has a new look because we all know the only difference between a rut and the grave are the dimensions.  #waldina #blogging #wordpress #dailypost #unbothered #PNW #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #seattle #dailyinspiration #StyleIcon #History #Legend

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