Tughra (Insignia) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)
Postcard Story – Tughra (Insignia) of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent – From Turkey, Istanbul, ca.1555-60 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Second Grandson – 08/26/24
…and his penmanship was never great, writing, yes, taught in school, but for a boy who just wanted to have fun, it was a distraction, a bother, but, okay, he had to do it, and he did it, and well enough that it was legible, that his teacher could read it, but as she did with everything, she said he really could do better, as did all his teachers at some point, in some way … and were, yes, always right. But why take the time when he could have fun doing something else.
And his grandfather, in his own way, said the same thing but never said it outright – a grandpa with…not pretensions of being a writer, because he does write, but will he ever publish something in a book? So maybe he isn’t a real writer…
But he says things at times which are short and true which hits like an arrow, like, like, when he said once, “You be kind to your cousin”, because he might have heard what he was saying.
And now that he is preparing resumes, and applications for scholarships and grants, and graduate school, he wonders at times what his signature looks like, how his scribbling comes across and what it says about him, and if it says something, does it speak of good things, and if he tries to change it into something different, will it just make people laugh or worse just snicker and mock…
And yet his grandpa once said that the way a man signs his name means very little, but the more important signature of a man is how he lived his life. Has he been kind, generous, giving and loving … And this he remembers now.
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