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• Why I Write While Walking.

  
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  Thoughts on becoming a better writer… photo credit: Kirsten Hallenbeck How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live! Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move my thoughts begin to flow–as if I had given vent to the stream at the lower end and […]
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• TEN SPEED NEWS CYCLE

  
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  by Frederick L. Shiels Cartoon by Mike Luckovich Obama’s second term is doomed they say Six months in, Press coroners pronounce it dead The IRS chastised for chasing Tea drinkers, Hillary’s inattention slaughters our ambassador in Benghazi then her crew make up stories, Associated Press, ...
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• A Short Riff on Shane Carruth’s Film Upstream Color

  
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  1. I managed to avoid reading  anything about Shane Carruth’s new film  Upstream Color before I saw it. I just knew that this was the guy who did  Primer , this was his new film, and I wanted to see it because  Primer  was so strange and engaging. 2. Two immediate responses after viewing  Upstream Color : ...
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• A SPY FOR DIXIELAND

  
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  Ian Fleming never gave me a thought.  I never had a specially-equipped car, dangerous gadgets.  But I was a spy for Dixieland. In a recent seminar with one of my mentors, Prof. Figg, he asked the question, “What are your secret guilty musical pleasures?” I think the Professor expected that I was listening to ...
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• Simple Joys

  
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  It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. - Mary Anne Radmacher It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. - Thomas Jefferson That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau The best things in life ...
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• "I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits unless I spend four hours a day at least — and..."

  
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  “ I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields absoutely free from all wordly engagements. […] When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shop-keepers stay ...
  2 weeks ago

• Second Chance to Live, Thoughts and Quotes to Inspire Video Presentation

  
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  Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. Thank you for making the decision to stop by to visit with me. Today, I want to share the above article in video format. I create video presentations of my articles to empower individuals who learn through watching and listening. As you watch this presentation ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wildness and Wilderness

  
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  Rain came today, a harbinger of monsoon season. Lightning and thunder and gentle drops shining like precious gems on tree branches and the radiant green of new foliage. I went out for a drive, not so much for photography but to revel in the scents of wet earth, sagebrush and pine. I hiked to a favorite lookout spot on ...
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• Second Chance to Live, Thoughts and Quotes to Inspire

  
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  Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to see that you decided to stop by to visit with me. Thank you. Today, I would like to share some thoughts with you, with quotes that inspire me. As you read this article, may you too be encouraged and inspired to be fully you, to live the life that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)

  
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  In essays, journals, and poems, Henry David Thoreau recorded impassioned expressions of the beauty and the agony of love between men. Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1817. He attended the newly founded Concord Academy and, after taking several leaves from his studies to earn money and to ...
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• Rand Paul’s Task in ’16: How to Sell Country Liberty to the City

  
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  In conjunction with his appearance on Time ’s 100 Most Influential People list, Sen. Rand Paul attended a gala sponsored by the magazine, where he toasted Henry David Thoreau—“just a guy,” Paul explained, who “wanted to live by himself,” but “society wouldn’t leave him alone.” Obviously, the ...
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• The Edge of All We Know

  
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  Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. - Mary Anne Radmacher The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The ...
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• Do more of what inspires you

  
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  In response to my daily post Kick Back I received this question... Can you be busy without being hurried? Is there a difference between being active and busy? I thought being too idle isnt good either! Either way, I love these quotes every single day of my life. My reply... The problems I am attempting to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fishtown’s B. Someday Productions to bring arts camp to a Navajo Community

  
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  Thoreau Community Center promotes activities at the school. Fishtown’s B. Someday Productions ( www.bsomeday.org ) announces a new initiative serving Navajo youth in New Mexico, starting this summer. Michelle Pauls , artistic director of B. Someday Productions, and Mary Ellen Gardner , a reading specialist, will ...
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• May Day! May Day!

  
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  I’m not sure if that is a cheer for spring or call for help. Snow will soon be falling. The forecast this morning promised 6 inches (15.2cm) then it was downgraded to 3 (7.6cm) and now it is down to just over an inch (2.5cm). Perhaps it will end up being nothing at all but rain. Snowflakes in early May are not ...
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• Rainy, Muddy Homestead

  
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  We have had several days of dreary rain here on the homestead.  The pig pen is officially a mud pit, but the crops have been loving the rain.  Some of the seedlings from my second planting have sprouted.  Green beans are making their appearance! My Viking Potatoes (purple potatoes) finally took off.  The ...
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• Sundance London 2013 – Upstream Color (2013)

  
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  In William Gibson’s 2003 novel Pattern Recognition   a mysteriously binary filmmaker slowly and anonymously drip feeds footage of his homebrew masterpiece to an eagerly seduced audience of intellectually curious, avant-garde aligned internet film fanatics. Christened as a ‘garage Kubrick’ by the fictional ...
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• Cinema Movie Review: Upstream Color (2013)

  
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  Fear worm Shane Carruth’s sophomore film, Upstream Color (2013), is a rich and layered story told through a series of double-entendres and paradoxes that makes the film a unique experience for its audience. Told in the same breath as a David Lynch film, attention to the... To read more, follow the link on this page ...
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• Henry David Thoreau on seeing what matters

  
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  “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau Selected from CuriositiesByDickens
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• Printable dreams quote- Henry David Thoreau

  
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  I havent done a printable quote in at least a week right? Anyway, I hope you like this one.Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Henry David Thoreau.The image above is shareable from my Facebook page and click the image below for a larger ...
  4 weeks ago

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