Can We Talk About Me?

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.  Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience.
—    Henry David Thoreau
From his book:  “Walden“
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2015	Expressing Love
2014	Cyclical Attitudes
2013	Footprints
2012	Broken Resolutions
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Seeking Finer Fruits

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
—    Henry David Thoreau
From:  “Walden“
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2017	Something That Is Absolute
2016	Animate And Encourage
	Out Of Time
2015	In Time
2014	Robust Interconnectivity
2013	What Have We Here?
2012	Tributaries And Eddies
	An Honest Politician
2011	Penultimate

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To Not Discovering

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.  I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear;  nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary.  I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world;  or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
—    Henry David Thoreau
From his book:  “Walden; or, Life in the Woods “
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On This Day In:
2013	I Have Less To Say
2012	Not The Best Prediction I’ve Ever Read

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