SM Stirling posted the above link in the combox here. On my screen, links do not work in the combox although they do work in the email notifications that I receive of new combox comments. I have, letter by letter and symbol by symbol, reproduced the link here on this post (see above) but it doesn't work here either, at least not for me. However, when I spelled out the link in the search box at the top of the screen, it did work, showing a photo of the young Teddy Roosevelt which I have saved and have now copied to this post (see image). Sorry for this complication. Time for me to have some breakfast, do some grocery shopping, meet a friend for lunch, visit Ketlan, then greet Sheila on her return from a few days holiday in Torquay. Maybe some blogging after that.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Thanks for all this trouble you take! I was interested enough to attempt finding pictures of the young Theodore Roosevelt. But I think I missed seeing this one. He certainly looks ready and willing to do SOMETHING far too painfully strenuous and active for my taste! (Smiles)
Sean
Yup. He was very sickly as a small child, and started on a project of self-construction that he continued his whole life. By the time he was a young man, even hardened frontiersmen were awed by his utter indifference to hardship.
His response to waking up with three inches of snow on his bedding on a hunting trip was to spring up and proclaim: "This is bully!"
And while bringing in some miscreants through a hundred miles of trackless wilderness (they'd stolen his boat at his ranch -- an epic, too complex to go into here) he kept awake by reading to them all night from "Anna Karenina".
Dear Mr. Stirling,
I'm awed by the achievements of Teddy Roosevelt. AND I had to laugh at the bit about him reading aloud to thieves from Tolstoy's novel ANNA KARENINA.
I was also reminded of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. His birth was so badly bungled that he was left with a permanently crippled arm. But Wilhelm DROVE himself to over come this handicap, learning how to swim and shoot and all the other things people with two good arms can do. I have to respect that!
Sean
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