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May.02.2013 Driving Jacket I'm not a good driver. I'm easily distracted. I talk with others, or to myself, I sing, I look around and I'm forever finding myself lost. I forget to drive, to focus on the road, and get where I'm going. Life is a journey, to be enjoyed in reflection, only if you reach a...	Apr.04.2013 Walden If we could retain our early innocence we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature The weather in Concord, Massachusetts was freezing. Snow flittered to the ground. It didn’t matter. It was my birthday. My present to myself was...
Aug.23.2012 Bittersweet Song of Cicadas “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” –Henry David Thoreau Tired of the air conditioning and needing fresh air, I recently opened one of my kitchen windows and I heard them. I sighed. The sweetness of the familiar summer sound mingled with the...	Jul.11.2012 Incessant Business On Radio 4′s ‘Off the Page’ on 19th June, Dominic Arkwright discussed the merits of idleness with Hardeep Singh Kohli, Stephanie Calman and Oliver Burkeman. During the discussion, Dominic mentioned a quote from Thoreau’s ‘Life Without Principle’ which I found thought-provoking...
Apr.08.2010 Henry David Thoreau: Anarchist? Henry David Thoreau was a civil disobedient. He influenced Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The study of civil disobedience is an important point, and is especially worth looking at as it relates to the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Civil War, World War II, and the civil...	Mar.24.2010 Language of Gestures Our third blizzard. The horse waits by the pasture fence for the car to pull in, but it won't, not for days. He has plenty of grain and sheaves of hay, good enough. Still I see him in the mind's eye. His eyes scan mine mid-day as I stare out at the hurrying snow. It's not the beet pulp he cares for...
May.09.2009 What’s an Unpublished Writer To Do? In spite of self-publishing gaining more respectability, there are still those who feel it is a waste of money for authors to go that route. Just this week alone I have come across a couple of cynics who believe that struggling writers are foolish and being taken advantage of by this type of...	Aug.08.2008 Walking with Thoreau I finished my work sooner than expected yesterday and so was able to join my wife and a <!--break-->friend of hers (and seven kids) at Chatham's Lighthouse beach in the late afternoon. While the kids were happily playing in the waves and digging tunnels for the encroaching tide, I went for a...