…the house I live in…

A journal of life pursued

Thoreau

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
July 31, 2011

An attempt to strangle-hold summer.

…you realize that sleeping on the ground and scrounging for firewood was easier before hip replacement. Continue reading

Dogs, Nature, The Examined Life

aging, Camping, Fore River, Jackman, Maine, middle age, Moose River, Om mani padme hum, Portland, Thoreau
June 4, 2011

“I need to go to Moosehead every afternoon, & camp out every night.” ~ HDT

“…with the advent of spring, I leap with full abandon, into the chasm of irrational cabin-fever induced behavior.” Continue reading

Memoir, Nature

cabin fever, Camping, canoeing, greenville maine, Maine, Moosehead Lake, Thoreau
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
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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