SJK: Well you’d really have to be comfortable with your body to take pictures like that.
Me: Mhmm…well he used to be a swimmer. *shrugs*
SJK: OoooOooh that explains the back muscles.
Me: ….what the hell…how do you even remember that?! I don’t—
SJK: Nooo I only remember because you said it looked like a bug!
Me: hahah oh yeahh…his muscles form a shape of a louse.
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Not sure what’s sad…that non-bug-related things remind me of bugs…or that SJK remembers.
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy hosts a tea party for wives of new ambassadors. The guests stand in front of the grand staircase in the Entrance Hall of the White House.
Guests include: Neila Zouiten Bourguiba (wife of Ambassador Habib Bourguiba, Jr. of Tunisia); Mrs. Frédéric Guirma of Upper Volta; Mrs. Sergio Fenoaltea of Italy (first name unknown); Helena Drozniak (wife of Ambassador Edward Drozniak of Poland); Mrs. Michel Gallin-Douathe of Central African Republic; Seelawathie Rambukwella Gopallawa (wife of Ambassador William Gopallawa of Ceylon); Mrs. Matrika Prasad Koirala of Nepal; Nepalese interpreter Bhinda Malla; Mrs. Il Kwon Chung of South Korea; Mrs. Emmanuel Datnongo Dadet of Congo; Virginia Rusk (wife of Secretary of State Dean Rusk); Mrs. Ousmane Diop of Senegal; Mrs. Seydou Conte of Guinea.
Love all the different dresses :)
(via todaysdocument)
One Down, Three to Go!
In this 1935 photograph of Mt. Rushmore, Washington has been completed and Jefferson is just getting started. Work began on the monument in 1927 and the faces of the four presidents were completed by 1939, with work ending in 1941.
[South Dakota Projects, 1917-1949]: Washington completed, Jefferson in progress, 09/1935
© Courtesy of the New York Transit Museum. Above: The main concourse at Grand Central Terminal, 1929. (via New York: Portrait of a City | PDN Photo of the Day)
The visuals remind me of the time we were lonely together. We were the only ones awake while the rest of our worlds slept.