Dog wood in a top hat vase.

And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Psalm 90 : 17 ( This is the last verse of some poetry that makes one slowly shrink with shame for our sins, then number our days and rejoice in His mercy . )

Now some thoughts about a hat!

A crown is merely a hat that let’s the rain in.

Fredrick the Great 1712 -1786 ( He was the last Hohenzollern King in Prussia declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772 )

How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.

Then…

The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.

Both quotes are by Philip Treacy 1967 An Irish haute couture milliner/hat designer. Vogue described him as
‘ perhaps the greatest living milliner ‘.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

John Oldham 1653 – 1683 ( He was an English satirical poet, a good friend of John Dryden. John Oldham died of smallpox aged only 30.) Here is an example of one of his poems:

'But who would be to the vile drudgery bound
Where there so small encouragement is found? 
Where you for recompense for all your pains,
Shall hardly reach a common fiddler's gains?
For when you have toiled and laboured all you can,
To dung and cultuvate the brain,
A Dancing-Master shall be better paid,
Tho' he instructs the Heals and you the Head.' 

John Oldham

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 American naturalist, essayist, poet and philosopher.)

A hat, work , poem. I hope time is being good to you!

Sandy 🙂