"NEVER THINK YOU'VE SEEN THE LAST OF ANYTHING."

I've often felt inspired by a remarkable writer from the last century who was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1909. Eudora Welty's home in Jackson is a National Historic Landmark, and with good reason.

The outstanding writer who lived there won the Pulitzer prize for fiction, as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  There's a portrait of her in the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian (shown above). Her works include forty short stories, five novels, three non-fiction stories, and one children's book. She was proud of her southern roots and wrote short stories and novels about the South. 

It's not as well known, however, that Eudora Welty loved photography.  After she finished her studies in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she returned to Jackson, Mississippi, where she took photographs showing the Great Depression.  Her photos often showed the rural poor of Mississippi and the effects of the Great Depression. One particular book she wrote was inspired by a woman she photographed ironing in the back of a post office. It was titled "Why I Live at the Post Office." 

May 2 is a significant day in Jackson, Mississippi because it's Eudora Welty Day.  She is buried in that city, and on her headstone it repeats words from her book The Optimists Daughter:  "For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of love." 

Here are a few additional thoughts from an American writer who was a remarkable woman:

     "All serious daring starts from within."
     "A good snapshot stops a moment from running away."
     "Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into beaming a part of it."
     "Never think you've seen the last of anything."

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