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• Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 579
  "The sky is the daily bread of the eyes," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson magnificently and truly. And this from a man who lived in New England where there is no sky to speak of. What would he have written had he been able to bathe his thoughts in the lambent light of the desert Southwest?
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• THOT 4 2 DAY — 12.22.09

  
  JonClaytonBizBlog — Authority: 134
  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau Share and Enjoy:
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• Quick Bites: Opening Dates

  
  Foobooz — Authority: 489
  Zavino, aiming for December 26h. [Grub Street]Thoreau, vegetarian restaurant from Blue Sage chef/owner Mike Jackson has penciled in January 22nd for its Spring Garden debut. [Living on the Vedge]Shank’s riverfront stand will open on December 26th at Delaware and Christian. [The Insider]Similar Posts:Shank’s ...
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• Or A Falcon

  
  Hungry Hyaena — Authority: 112
  Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus); New York City "I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January ...
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• Restaurant Foreplay: Thoreau

  
  Living On The Vedge — Authority: 111
  Opening Late January. 1033 Spring Garden. Vegetarian "grille" from Chef Mike Jackson of Blue Sage in Southampton. http://thoreaurestaurant.com Chef is like some poet - maybe Walt Whitman. Chef is intent on riding the "Loft District" magic pony. Works for us. Private micro-farm and outdoor seating to come. BYO ...
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• My Favorite Holiday Things

  
  KILLER HOBBIES — Authority: 126
  My blog sisters and I thought this would be a good time to discuss some of our holiday favorites. Heres my list: 1. My favorite TV program --An episode of The Red Skelton Show where "Freddy and the Yuletide Doll," where Freddy the Freeloader danced with a Raggedy Ann doll that came to life. ...
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• The Wuthering Expectations Best of 2009

  
  Wuthering Expectations — Authority: 468
  Three extra-large Humiliations were crossed off my list: Walden , The Scarlet Letter , and The Flowers of Evil , all highly rewarding.  Lets set those aside, though.  Some fleeting highlights: 1. Thoreau recommends the "rich sweet cider" of the frozen-thawed apple.  "Your jaws are the cider-press."  ("Wild ...
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• Jack Ritchie’s Deflationary Naturalism: A Problem for Atheism?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 140
  Brian Leiter on Wednesday directed his blog readers’s attention to Jack Ritchie’s Understanding Naturalism (2009) , quoting a recent review of the book that says in part: The attitude Ritchie recommends for the genuine or serious naturalist is metaphysical agnosticism  (cf. 104, 143, 148, 158). Like ...
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• Thoreau on Virtue & Vice

  
  Cosmopoetica — Authority: 424
  [ CC licensed image by DerrickT ] “I was never so rapid in my virtue but that my vice kept up with me. We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.” –Henry David Thoreau
  2 weeks ago

• Lieberman, The Independent

  
  Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State — Authority: 126
  Over on the left, the discussion about Lieberman – when it is not outrageously wrongheaded – has taken its usual turn: The discussion has turned quickly from an attempt to answer the question “What are Lieberman’s reasons for opposing the recent grand plans of progressives in his party?” to the more easily ...
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• Skygazing Excursion

  
  Deep Craft — Authority: 422
  late afternoon clouds along the Valley Ford-Bodega Road “You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.” -Henry David Thoreau In West Sonoma County, the sky blooms when the lands lay dormant. Between storms, I make skygazing excursions and think about what I might do with paints and canvas, longing to ...
  2 weeks ago

• NEW from The Chairs Series -

  
  MickMathersARTblog — Authority: 128
  "Musical Chairs" manipulated digital painting by Mick Mather "... I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society ..." - Henry David Thoreau
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• In Transition: film night at Benderloch

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 446
  [ December 13, 2009; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] The medieval concept of flattery was that rather than being abject crawling it held up a positive distorting mirror to encourage better behaviour.In Transition, the film showing at Benderloch tomorrow night, Sunday 13th December, at 7.00pm in the Victory Hall is doing just ...
  2 weeks ago

• I fight with love and I laugh with rage

  
  Vertigo — Authority: 125
  I got three more brand new books. For my birthday my mother gave me a $40 Barnes and Noble gift card, but when I initially made my order, since the credit card was on the website record, when I clicked proceed, the charged went immediately to my credit card. (not my fault!) So, I ended up doing two orders of books ...
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• The Self-Immolation of a Monk: Non-Violent Resistance.

  
  elephant journal — Authority: 492
  This iconic photo shocked, horrified and yet inspired the world. The Self-Immolation of a Monk: the Ultimate Expression of Non-Violent Resistance. A New Musical Contemplation. Via the artist: Fire Someone yells fire They scream of a fire Closed Eyes Calm mind The peaceful resistance We know Brings more ...
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• Thoreaus Journal

  
  Evenings in Paradelle — Authority: 122
  Most people know Henry David Thoreau for his book Walden . That story about two years he spent living by Walden Pond in the Concord woods is many a persons quiet armchair adventure. Seems like quite an ideal little respite from the world. Thoreau also kept journals. He started at 20 and continued for 24 years, until ...
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• We may ask ourselves, almost with dismay, whether such works exist at all - Robert Louis Stevenson on Thoreau

  
  Wuthering Expectations — Authority: 468
  I have been reading ahead in preparation for the forthcoming Wuthering Expectations Scottish Literature Challenge*, in particular for a planned assault on the books of Robert Louis Stevenson.  Stevensons first published book, An Inland Voyage (1878) is a clever little travelogue of Stevensons canoe trip in ...
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• I was determined to know beans – and maples, and apples, and squirrels

  
  Wuthering Expectations — Authority: 468
  Robert D. Richardson is describing Thoreau’s Apollonian spirituality: Where the Christian yearns to be redeemed, and the Dionysian to be possessed, the Apollonian yearns to know, to see clearly, to perceive. ( Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind , 194) Thoreau is in some ways hard for me to approach, but here ...
  3 weeks ago

• Too much wisdom literature.

  
  Pragmatik — Authority: 123
  A few years ago, my friend sent me a copy of Baltasar Gracián ’s The Art of Worldly Wisdom . It is, by the way, excellent reading. It calls to mind Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations , and I mean that in a very good way.  I was reading it a bit last night, and of course, I was struck by just how damned ...
  3 weeks ago

• The crank within - the crank after all - Henry David Thoreau and the usefulness of cranks

  
  Wuthering Expectations — Authority: 468
  Yesterday I called Henry David Thoreau a crackpot, which is unfair.  Hes not a crackpot.  Hes a crank. But there is a certain divine energy in every man, but sparingly employed as yet, which may be called the crank within, - the crank after all, - the prime mover in all machinery, - quite indispensable to all ...
  3 weeks ago

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