Recently a picture of Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller has surfaced that places them together at the earliest of any picture. Helen was eight years old at the time of the picture. I found it very interesting.
While cleaning my bookshelf yesterday I noticed I had a paperback copy of The Story Of My Life by Helen Keller first published in 1902. I pulled it down and started it. Right at the beginning I found two quotes that struck a cord.
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
Which is the first sentence of the book.
... though it is true that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Which came on the heels of presenting a bit her genealogy.
Even at such a young age (~20yrs at the writing this book) she has a very interesting and beautiful way with words.
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