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The chapters on the right are the story of an amazing collection of very old tintypes, of many famous people which I have discovered. > > >
The blog entries run below...
On a balmy Wednesday
evening last spring I came home and had a heart attack after some
strenuous youth activities at church. It was my second time to ride
the ambulance to the hospital and have stents pushed through my body.
But this second time,
which was more painful, I was less inclined to do anything. I was
depressed, fragile... too fragile to live the life I wanted to live.
Something had to give... I had to cut some of the stress out of my
gusto-rich routine. I pouted around and read some, and shopped aimlessly.
For a few weeks before my
heart attack I had been visiting a certain vendor. This guy
had hundreds of old tintypes for sale, a collection of collections,
which had that distinct air of being part of somebody's life's work.
There were so any rare images marching by like a Victorian parade,
and I began to see related faces, whole families, and rare
occupational images which I could not afford. This was a rare find,
the culmination of years of searching and acquisition by a
discriminating collector. I had
nothing better to do, so I began to really look at the images
carefully... admiring the pristine messengers of history, flamboyant ladies fashions
and cute little children. What happened next is what this blog is all
about.
This blog stands or collapses on my visual
perception and my bedrock spiritual paradigm and it is my testimony, that the Lord God,
Master of the Universe, arranged what happened next!
