Funny, I was working on my book, and for some reason it hit me that my last few posts have kinda been downers. But I guess things are pretty down. But the down part isn’t everything, is it?
Procrastinating, I came across this beautiful and amazing picture, which Jenny Davidson posted on Light Reading.
The picture below comes from a book on black cowboys in Philadelphia. Mike Newell wrote a profile on them a few years ago for the Philadelphia Weekly:
Black inner-city cowboys have been racing their horses at the Speedway since before even the old-timers can remember.
“Some things just always been around,” says one Speedway regular, gray and stooped, moving through the crowd. “It’s what we do.”