{"id":71139,"date":"2016-02-14T13:44:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T17:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=71139"},"modified":"2016-02-14T13:44:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T17:44:27","slug":"happy-val-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=71139","title":{"rendered":"Happy Val Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting, isn’t it, that one of America’s most notorious authors of books banned under then-existing obscenity laws had the middle name Valentine? All true. Henry Valentine Miller.
\n“The publication of Miller’s Tropic of Cancer in the United States in 1961 by Grove Press led to a series of obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography. The U.S. Supreme Court, in Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein, citing Jacobellis v. Ohio (which was decided the same day in 1964), overruled the state court findings of obscenity and declared the book a work of literature…Following the trial, in 1964\u201365, other books of Miller’s which had also been banned in the US were published by Grove Press: Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, Quiet Days in Clichy, Sexus, Plexus and Nexus<\/em>.” from the Wiki on Henry Miller<\/a> <\/p>\n

In my teens I loved Miller’s Quiet Days in Clichy, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch.
\nI don’t think I made it through all the Tropics. But as a teenager, I generally read everything my brothers read.
\nThen in my early twenties, living on my own I unconsciously switched to reading books written almost solely by or about women, Woolf and Wharton, Austen and DeBeauvoir.
\nThis Val Day, not necessarily in this order, I’m thinking of the power of love, of books, sons and brothers, a good breakfast, foggy mornings, and the power of SCOTUS too.
\nAnd I’m bringing a bouquet of sunflowers to you to celebrate the day. They arrived early this morning, all the way from Tanzania.
\nMitch<\/a> is traveling through East Africa with IPFRI<\/a> (International Food Policy Research Institute) and in Tanzania they stopped at a sunflower oil factory. The photos are fairly self-explanatory. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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