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Men do outrage to their proper natures as the tool of an institution
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.25]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
Herein is the tragedy: that men doing outrage to their proper natures, even those called wise and good, lend themselves to perform the office of inferior and brutal ones. Hence come war and slavery in; and what else may not come in by this opening? But certainly there are modes by which a man may put bread into his mouth which will not prejudice him as a companion and neighbor.
– Henry David Thoreau, from “Monday,” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (location 283 of 882)
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Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead...
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.25]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
“I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead un-kind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors.”"
– Henry David Thoreau, from “Monday,” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (location 282 of 882)
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morning backyard through bedroom window
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.24]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.21]
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sun in the elms after the rainstorm
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.23]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.21]
Evening sun breaking through the clouds to some of the upper bows of the Siberian Elms after the rainstorm.
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Now (June 23, 2022)
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.23]
[Last Updated: 2022.06.23]
Here are some of the things I’m working on and thinking about now…
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Ant on Flower Buds
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.19]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
A large ant crawling on the buds of some plant growing through the fence from our neighbors' yard.
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Reading Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.19]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.22]
i’m paddling my way through Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, though it is definitely taking me more than a week.
I have this Library of America edition, but I’m actually mainly reading it on my phone - Standard Ebooks edition, added to the iOS Books app. The LoA edition has reference notes, so I look at it when I can, but I actually like reading on my phone.
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Webmentions
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.18]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
Update: I’m sort of trying to implement webmentions on this website. I think I’m halfway there but I don’t really have any way to actually know because I don’t have any friends and I don’t share anything anywhere anymore.
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Digital Gardening
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.18]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
This is the first seed I’m planting in my digital garden: notes, links, and ideas about digital gardening itself.
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My Backyard Desk
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.18]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.21]
Update: my wife referred to this as my “moveable grotto,” which is ridiculous, but probably better. Definitely better.
Original: a view from my backyard “desk” just as I was creating the home page for my new “digital” garden.
