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A journal of life pursued

Wisdom

March 31, 2012

The birthday gift.

it simply arrived, out of nowhere, as if released from an autumnal cloud. Continue reading

Dogs, Happiness, Life, Memoir, The Examined Life, Wisdom

Childhood, Dogs, life affirmation, memior, Writing
February 25, 2012

Leaning in to wisdom.

I must climb down off this box of soap. Continue reading

Creativity, Literature, Nature, Philosophy, Photography, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Wisdom, Writing

Beethoven, Montaigne, standing on the shoulders of giants, Thatcher Cook, Thoreau
June 13, 2011

The nature of the thing itself.

“When Mets’ Carlos Beltran receives a new box of bats, he likes to listen to them…” Continue reading

Creativity, Curiosity, Happiness, Photography, The Examined Life, The infinity of ideas, Wisdom

baseball, canoes, Carlos Baltran, follow your passion, Jospeh Campbell, Leica, Maine, male middle age, passion, Steve Ballmer
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
November 5, 2010

Review of Miscellany

“Doubting pleases me no less than knowing.” Continue reading

Books, Reading, Technology, Wisdom

beer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Dante, Hamlet’s Blackberry, Melville, The Millions, The Nervous Breakdown, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Rumpus, The Social Network, Zadie Smith
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

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