It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down, saying, I never merited this grace, quite rightly, and then to sulk along the rest of your days on the edge of rage. I won’t have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright.
[Annie Dillard]
and because Old Dutch Cleanser was made by Cudahy, because the woman in clogs with her stick looks like she has no time for looking at ‘the viewer’ because she’s busy going off to whale on something, and because she has a forearm like a lumberjack, and because it says “chases dirt,” we love this tin placard.
