He is listed as an author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, tax resister, and transcendentalist. Henry David Thoreau (pronounced in his time as thorough or THOR-oh) was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. I have written about him here before and I am a big admirer of Walden; or, A Life in the Woods. But his life … Continue reading Hank Thoreau
“A traveler! I love this title. A traveler is to be reverenced as such.His profession is the best symbol of our life.Going from ___ toward ___; it is the history of every one of us.” Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday is this year. I have never quite felt comfortable with the idea of marking birthdays … Continue reading An Amble with Thoreau
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” – Thoreau, Walden May 30, 1849: Henry David Thoreau self-published A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, his first book that was about a boating trip he had taken with his brother, John. The trip had been 10 years earlier. They had gone … Continue reading On a River
“By my intimacy with nature, I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.” – Henry David Thoreau I came upon a collection of poems titled “Poems about Loneliness and Solitude.” My first thought was that they shouldn’t be combined … Continue reading Solitude
In 2015 I wrote a very small post titled “What Happiness Looks Like.” It continues to be one of my most-read posts and I suspect it is because we all want to be happy and we are eager to find the answer to happiness. Looking at my hashtags on the posts here, I see that … Continue reading This Thing We Call Happiness
I’ve written about Thoreau at Walden Pond and about the book that came from his time there, but it was this week in 1847, that Henry David Thoreau left Walden Pond. On September 6, he left the little place at the pond that had on the land that Ralph Waldo Emerson had bought there. In … Continue reading Leaving Walden Pond
Weekends in Paradelle 