4 July

Born in 1900 – Nellie Mae Rowe, American folk artist.

Above: My house is Clean Enought to Be healty and it dirty Enought to Be happy, 1978–1982

Also, born in 1804, American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne:

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.