Photo of the Day

Thoughts on what we will miss in the coming days.

With words from Shakespeare.

Bread-line, 1932. Dorothea Lange photo.

The quality of mercy is not strained;

Arkansas flood refugees, 1937. Walker Evans photo.

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

Upon the place beneath.

Okinawa 1945.

It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:

Al Capone's Chicago soup kitchen for the unemployed, 1931.

'T is mightiest in the mightiest;

Federal marshalls escort six-year-old Ruby Bridges to elementary school in New Orleans following a federal desegregation order, 1960.

it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown:

Princess Diana speaks with a patient suffering from HIV/Aids, October 1991. Casey House, Toronto photo.

His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;

Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

But mercy is above this sceptred sway;

Obama, 2015.

It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,

First Lady Betty Ford atop the Cabinet Room conference table, c. 1975. David Hume Kennerly photo.

It is an attribute to God himself;

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld helps carry a 9/11 victim from the Pentagon. CNN image.

And earthly power doth then show likest God's

President Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, greet emancipated Black people in the fallen Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, two weeks before his assassination.

When mercy seasons justice. ¹

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I’ll see you tomorrow.

— Brenda

1. William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice,” 1600.