…the house I live in…

A journal of life pursued

Thinkers

August 26, 2011

“…away from Heald Pond.”

To be present is the great motivation. Continue reading

Life, Nature, Philosophy, The Examined Life, Thinkers

Eric Hoffer, Henry David Thoreau, loniness, Maine, Montaigne, solitude
February 14, 2011

The Wisdom of Thoreau

“I make my own time. I make my own terms.” Continue reading

Philosophy, The Examined Life, Thinkers, Wisdom, Writers

Henry David Thoreau, Maine, Moosehead Lake, The Great North Woods, The Thoreau Society, Walden, Wayne Thomas
February 10, 2011

My window

It is a sense of wonder that most reminds me of my humanness. Continue reading

Nature, Philosophy, Thinkers

All Things Shining, Arete, Emerson, Homer, Maine, Nature, Thoreau, Transcendentialsim
February 7, 2011

The well gone dry!

“Sow an action and you reap a habit…” Continue reading

Creativity, Philosophy, Thinkers, Writing

Camus, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Pragmatism, Sisyphus, William James
October 15, 2010

Walk On!

“I think of walking as a metaphor for–or, more properly, a metaphor against–modern life. It is a symbol of pre-modernity.” Continue reading

Philosophy, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Wisdom

Buddhism, Modernity, Neitzsche, Strolling, The Nervous Breakdown, Thoreau, walking
August 19, 2010

A Pandemonium of Myths…

Backward is no longer backward. It is forward. Continue reading

Philosophy, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Wisdom

Authenticity, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Modernity, Nietzsche, Yvon Chouinard, Zarathustra

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