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In the corner of my fifth grade classroom, there was an old box piano with yellowed keys. Every other week, we would have a sing-a-long. One morning, our teacher announced we would be singing a song in honor of a classmate’s brother who was serving in the war. Read the rest of this entry »
At the end of an event I recently attended, two gentlemen discussed their respective fountain pen collections. I listened in as they conversed prices and types (cartridge, inkwell). An image of my father using a fountain pen (and complaining of its leakage) surged out of my memory banks, quickly followed by Koko the Clown.
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The cartoons were a creative combination of animation and live action.Although originally created during the silent movies, a later version was created for television in the early 1960s, and I remember avidly watching them, as they intrigued me to no end. (Trivia: Larry Story of “F Troop” fame supplied many of the voices.) Fountain pens are used by Presidents to sign important legal documents. Artists and writers benefit from the meeting of the literal flow of the ink and the metaphorical flow of the creative processes.
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Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
