CONNECTIONS March 26, 2006
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“Only connect ….” E.M. Forester said that at the end of one of his novels, I think. Maybe Howard’s End?
VISION March 25, 2006
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A Japanese proverb says: “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” I wonder what that means about my own lifelong Homework for a Vision?
THOREAU ON CLOTHES AND SIMPLICITY March 12, 2006
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In Walden Thoreau makes an interesting fashion statement: “Beware of enterprises that require new clothes.” I have followed his advice conscientiously since the 1970s. Later I bought myself a T-shirt that bears the last two words of another famous quotation from Walden: “Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify.”
THOREAU ON MONEY March 11, 2006
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Thoreau’s Journal for March 11, 1856, pronounces: “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” I would say the same goes for a woman ….
