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Happy civil new year

Thank you for your thoughtful, faith-filled, common sense reflection to begin the calendar new year. Your continual reminders that the life of the Body of Christ goes on in all the faithful, loving choices of each of us are helpful in the midst of temptation to get all fussed and bothered over passing storms.

The graphic at the top of the page is wonderful. Where did you find it? Who is the artist? Does it have a title? Is there a story behind it?

Thank you, thank you for all that you do!

Sr. Diana, C.T.
Community of the Transfiguration
Eureka, California, USA
srdianact@gmail.com
2 January 2012

Editor: The image is by American artist Rockwell Kent [1882-1971]. Wikipedia has a good overview of his life. With regard to the graphic — a woodcut titled 'Goodspeed' — apparently Kent created it as an illustration for a brochure for the American Car and Foundry Company sometime in the 1930s. It was published in Graphic Design, edited by Leon Friend and Joseph Hefter, Whittlesey House, 1936 (long out of print), where we first came across it. There are now many images on the web, although most do not reference its original title (probably because it isn't widely known).

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