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  • Corruption & Gravity


    A Philosopher's BlogAuthority Authority: 103
    Image via Wikipedia The Daily Show recently featured an interesting interview with Yale Law School professor Jonathan Macey. One part of the interview that I found especially interesting was Macey’s “defense” of capital firms like Bain in terms of what seemed to be the necessity (in the logical sense) of ...
    7 hours ago
  • Put in the foundation!


    People SkillsAuthority Authority: 107
    Image via Wikipedia “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden , 1854   Happy Monday – and do you have a plan for putting in your foundation?   This could be your schedule, your ...
    1 week ago
  • Reflections


    The Seasonal CottageAuthority Authority: 110
     Its not what you look at that matters, its what you see.  Henry David Thoreau photo by Denise Dion-Sullivan
    1 week ago
  • What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals…


    2009 Artist Quote of the DayAuthority Authority: 109
    Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) (pronounced like the word thorough, with emphasis on the first syllable) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Book Review: Picnics at Walden Pond by Kathryn Hilliard Klos


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    A professor of nineteenth-century American literature is transported back in time to observe some of her heroes.
    2 weeks ago
  • The Sad Irony of this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day


    The Democratic DailyAuthority Authority: 488
    First, an observation which I seldom see in print: King remembered going to a lecture on the principles of Gandhi, and how it changed his thinking. And Gandhi remembered reading Henry David Thoreau ‘s “Civil Disobedience” while in jail in South Africa. Now, of course, we know that another South African ...
    2 weeks ago
  • In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day


    The Wild HuntAuthority Authority: 110
    “I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever ...
    2 weeks ago
  • By another way - living a meaning-ful life


    CAUTEAuthority Authority: 100
    Click on the following link to hear the podcast of this post and/or download an mp3 (see bottom left of the page): By another way - 15 January 2012 Although I deleted them from the final script, in the first draft of last weeks address , I originally concluded with a few words about the final verse of our reading ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Living Deliberately and Looking Up...


    Finding My Way OMAuthority Authority: 111
    I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately,  to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it  had to teach, and not, when I came to die,  discover that I had not lived.  I wanted to live deep and and suck all the  marrow of life...  ~Henry David Thoreau ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Walden: How many of you have actually read it?


    Scholars and RoguesAuthority Authority: 549
    #15 : Walden by Henry David Thoreau Walden , I think, is one of those books everyone’s heard of, but I frequently wonder how many people have actually read it. It is, of course, the very stuff of high school English classes. I still remember by eleventh grade teacher, Mrs. Cummings, tell us that Thoreau lived ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Lost


    Orange County Wedding Photographer. Southern California Wedding Photographer. Destination Wedding PhotographerAuthority Authority: 98
    “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” Henry David Thoreau Photo by: Matthew Saville Being directionally challenged, I’ve been lost quite a bit in my life. Even with two GPS systems, my iPhone map, a MapQuest app and OnStar, I still constantly find myself getting on the wrong ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Unplugging is the New Black.


    Brains On Fire BlogAuthority Authority: 107
    Photo via Libby Williams . Grab a cup of coffee this is a long one. A friend passed this article on to me. The Joy of Quiet. Oh. My. Goodness. Take a few quiet minutes sometime today and read it to the end. I have. Twice. I have always loved this quote from Thoreau (keep in mind he was born in the ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Thoreau on sunsets


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    Henry David Thoreau, on January 7, 1852, pretty much nails my thoughts of every evening . We never tire of the drama of sunset. I go forth each afternoon and look into the west a quarter of an hour before sunset, with fresh curiosity, to see what new picture will be painted there, what new panorama exhibited, what ...
    3 weeks ago
  • The Power of Silence in Our Love Lives


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    "Mommy, lets listen to silence" remarked my five year old son on one of our many nature walks. In silence we got in touch with our inner thoughts, our minds, and our souls so that we could communicate in a meaningful way. That was then, some 35 years ago: then there is now. read more
    3 weeks ago
  • The Power of Silence in Our Love Lives


    BlogsAuthority Authority: 147
    "Mommy, lets listen to silence" remarked my five year old son on one of our many nature walks. In silence we got in touch with our inner thoughts, our minds, and our souls so that we could communicate in a meaningful way. That was then, some 35 years ago: then there is now. read more
    3 weeks ago

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