... I truly thank God for everything. Today I'm reminded to "go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined" as Henry David Thoreau said. Forget the naysayers. Concentrate on the positive. Soak in life, because it's all we have. Appreciate everything you have in your life and ...

On Leaves -- Henry David Thoreau

"It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully they go to their graves! -- how gently they lay themselves down and turn to mould! -- painted of a thousand hues, and fit to make the beds of us living. So they troop to their last resting-place, light and frisky." ~ Henry David Thoreau

In the hope...

It's been just over eight months since we've had a 'meeting' and just shy of a year since we've had a reading. Henry David Thoreau is a very personal favorite writer of mine. I've been going back over some of his work as of late and came across a rather fitting one I'd like to share with our chapter of the Dead Poets Society...

Another title, another show

... as profound as that produced by the automobile.” I feel this one keenly: On October 28, 1853, six years after leaving the solace of Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal: “My publisher has been writing from time to time to ask what disposition should be made of the copies of A Week on the ...

Castles in the air

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -Henry David Thoreau, Walden

A poem about hate - by Henry David Thoreau

Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell, Though I ponder on it well, Which were easier to state, All my love or all my hate. Surely, surely, thou wilt trust me When I say thou dost disgust me. O, I hate thee with a hate That would fain annihilate; Yet sometimes against my will, My dear friend, I love thee still. It were treason to our love, And a sin to God above, One iota to abate Of a pure impartial ...

Boo! Hoo!

... out with a broom. But ... shhhh ... don't tell them that Halloween was supposedly celebrated by the Celts in France! "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." Henry David Thoreau

quotes

... Lullaby , performed by Counting Crows " Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie."  - Henry David Thoreau " Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure." - Victor Hugo  

Quote Me This (Warm Ups)

...his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau The Last Straw Fifth and Sixth Quotes Choose: One Writing Time: 6 minutes Quote #5: There's nothing to writing. All you do is...

Round 2 Prompt List

... to live long enough. Groucho Mark 10. History is more or less bunk. Henry Ford 11. A man's kiss is his signature. Mae West 12. A ... revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Beethoven 20. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. Henry David Thoreau 21. Howling Ferret Milk Demon 22. Coronal Spot Maelstorm 23. Mercantile Nation of Spheres 24. Sacrament of the ...