Was talking with someone recently who recalls that Carry On spirit of her mother. The kind of strong person who has surgery in her nineties and is up and at 'em even on days off. Some mornings the daughter would be like, Do we have to? Take that walk; go to town; send that Thank You note. And her mom would respond, We don't have to, but we are.
There's a lot of America that gets done that way. I know for myself, all through Covid, I made it a point to carefully community. I purposefully varied up my shopping habits to spread the spending money. I made it a point to share my "back up" with my family, so they wouldn't have to go out as much. As an essential worker, I'd let non-essentials with reduced hours and not-paid-for time off know about gas deals and which convenience stores still had....
The businessperson spirit was similar to how years ago there was only Black Friday; then BF + Cyber Monday; then BF + CM + Small Business Saturdays, etc. Like playing Bridge or Rummy during the black outs of World War II, there are countless ways we serve our country, serve each other.
When I was studying the Great Depression I came across one of those pictures that sticks with you for life. People say of those kinds of images, It spoke to me, hip academics combining psychology with everything textual along their study-journies introduced the phrase, That resonates with me. The old black and white that resonated with me may have been taken by one of James Agee's traveling companions as NYC sent trape-sers to scope out the reh-al of Stock Market Crash.
Camera is looking over the shoulder of a man shaving in a car side mirror. Dignity of self even in the worst of times.
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