Nate, Dad and I circumabulated Walden pond yesterday. Quite a place. Quite. Still brimming with the spirit of the man. I sorely wanted to swim the length and maybe back, but pond water is a no-no. Something I would rather like to do someday. The cabin site is, properly, spartan and altar-like. I had a ball. And walked just shy of two miles. Thoreau, you probably know had a sweet donegal beard.
"Live deep and suck the marrow of life."
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Live deep indeed, HDT, I worship you almost as much as I do your benefactor and indoor-brother RWE. Not that I was invited but o! wish I'd a been there. It is really that gray in June? California living has extinguished my sense of weather with a complicated personality.
ReplyDeletePretty grey, but a pretty grey, if you follow me. Yeah, I got all nostalgic for the boys experiment too. Civil disobedience etc. Not no government, just good government. TM, too. I'm calling the boys the first American Buddhists. It really was a splendid trip/place. If I go back, will build a little cairn for you. The pond is 100ft deep! And there are stone-step entryways all around.
ReplyDeletetomorrow is sandy koufax day. he was not a buddhist. indeed, as some jew once asked -- it might have been koufax or maybe it was einstein -- if there is no self, whose arthritis is this?
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