Blue Dog

                                                                  George Rodrique

Based on a familiar Cajun folk tale, the loup-garou is a mythical werewolf that roams around places at night. Rodrigue remembers being told as a child to go to bed or else the loup-garou would get him. A boogie man story. The legend bore him this painting, set in a full moon landscape, which gave the dog the blue tint, and subsequently, gave the world an iconic image.

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Pulitzer Medal

"Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations."

Joseph Pulitzer 

When I Met My Muse

I glanced at her and took my glasses 
off--they were still singing. They buzzed 
like a locust on the coffee table and then 
ceased. Her voice belled forth, and the 
sunlight bent. I felt the ceiling arch, and 
knew that nails up there took a new grip 
on whatever they touched. "I am your own 
way of looking at things," she said. "When 
you allow me to live with you, every 
glance at the world around you will be 
a sort of salvation." And I took her hand.

William Stafford