An 8th Air Force B-17E comes in for a landing at an airbase in England after attacking targets in Europe July 1942.
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"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. Each day is the same, so you remember the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern."
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Lovely vintage ads for libraries and reading from the 1950s-1980s.
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