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Find the Good Art Print
by Jim Moore
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Find the Good art print by Jim Moore. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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When I was working as a writer for then-Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, a friend of Lamar's stopped by the Secretary's suite to visit. He... more
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When I was working as a writer for then-Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, a friend of Lamar's stopped by the Secretary's suite to visit. He came into my small office, introduced himself as Alex Haley, and asked me what I did every day. I said I was the Secretary's personal correspondence writer; it was my job to reply to students and teachers who wrote Lamar asking for advice or help, or for some message, or just out of appreciation. I was fortunate enough to be the one who wrote back on behalf of the Secretary, and each letter I wrote was unique--Lamar did not want boilerplate letters going out of the office--and I wrote between 30 and 50 letters a day.
Haley asked me to keep on writing; he just stood and watched for a few minutes. Then, just before he left, he looked at one of my letters and said, "Be sure you find the good in each letter they send, and find some way to praise the good in your reply."
About Jim Moore
I'm a former contract photographer with Gamma-Liaison Agency. Got my first experiences in photography in the very late 1950s from my artist mother and photo-loving dad, who encouraged me to put my work out there. Won my first prize in photography in 1963, for a picture of a brandy snifter with Christmas lights behind it. Never looked back. Gained my professional photo legs starting as a teenager shooting for the Northern Virginia Sun, back in the mid-'60s, when Rolleis, Pentaxes, Leicas, and Nikons (and the occasional Hasse) ranged the landscape. During and after college I was the photo editor for the Longmont, Colorado, Times-Call. At the time, the most demanding piece I shot was the crash of the Wichita State football team plane in...
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