Tonight is the start of Rosh Hashanah, which kicks off a 10-day period that I like to use to reflect on where I am, where I've come from, and where I hope to go. I thought perhaps that today's #stampoftheday would have some powerful metaphor for the journey but I'm not sure that's the case. …
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Tonight, the end of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, and a day after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it seems appropriate that today's #stampoftheday honors a Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian who was one of the world's best known freedom fighters in the mid 1800s. A Hungarian who was born on September 19, 1802, …
Unable to find a stamp that was issued today or one that honored someone who was born or died today, I went rummaging in the detritus of my late father's collection and turned up a wonderful gem: a leather postcard from Mohonk Lake, NY mailed on September 20,1907. On its own, the postcard - with its …
The death of loved ones is always painful and, it seems to me, the death of your child is particularly painful because, as my father said to me after my brother died, it seems to violate the natural order of things. The power of such a loss is driven home by today's #stampoftheday, which honors …
Sometimes I don't know what to write about the current #stampoftheday; sometimes I know what to write about but not what to say. Today is one of those days. The topic is obvious because the 4-cent stamp, which was issued on September 22, 1958, celebrates "Freedom of the Press" - an ideal that is again …
Today's #stamoftheday honors the first airmail delivery in the U.S., which was not delayed but did have a mishap and, truth be told, covered a grand total of six miles. The flight occurred on September 23, 1911 when Earle "Ovie" Ovington took 640 letters and 1,280 postcards by air from Garden City, NY to Mineola, NY. …
Stop me if you've heard this one before. Having lost a major election, a waning, lame-duck president and his congressional allies packs the courts with new appointees, including a Supreme Court judge who will vote on whether the effort is constitutional. This frightening scenario is both amazingly current and, as today's #stampoftheday illustrates, a piece …
Why do we hold onto and cherish artifacts from the past, particularly artifacts connected to our ancestors? That's the question raised by today's #stampoftheday, a 3-cent stamp, issued on September 25, 1939 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Stephen Daye Press - the first printing press used in Colonial America. In addition to being …
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. I open today's #stampoftheday post with these famous lines that start T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" because Eliot was (somewhat amazingly) honored on a 22-cent U.S. postage stamp issued on September 26, 1988, 100 years after he was born in …