coarse and strong and cunning

And having answered so I turn once more to those who
sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer
and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Carl Sandburg, Chicago

The “corn cobs” (a.k.a. Marina City) is another of my favorite Chicago buildings; there’s something wonderfully weird about them.

Three cullings for today:

• shodoshima, kagawa, japan from photomo
• On the hill of the cemetery from Richard Vanek
• redundancy… from gotreadgo