I went to 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.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Writings and photos on hope and resilience; love and relationships; life and death; anger and acceptance; and human behavior and beliefs
Monday, September 14, 2009
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The quiet is here with us, for now. It’s the silence of her exhaustion, 93 years deep. I am with the woman who has married four and buried f...
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Here I sit - nursing a scotch, looking out at the pink and orange reflection of the sunset on the mountain—pondering my solitary act of civi...
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“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first t...
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There's a meadow in my perfect world Where wind dances the branches of a tree Casting leopard spots of light across the face ...