Work Worth Doing

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing -Theodore Roosevelt This blog is significant to me because Teddy Roosevelt was a hero of mine and the inspiration for the beautiful collage portrait of him you see, created by John Morse, a dear […]

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