Essential facts of life
Posted on | March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
I am feeling irritated. Perturbed. Surrounded by crazy folks (family, patients) and people who want my money (tax time and despicable landlords). So this morning as a means to debrief I turned to a picture of my own version of Walden Pond, which led me to Thoreau; Walden and Civil Disobedience:
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life in which he has imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higer order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. 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."
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- April
- I am a RN & natural momma in the Pacific Northwest, married to a beautiful man I adore. Nature is my niche, animals get me. I read and I write, I hike and I love photography. Welcomed our daughter Hazel Annan earthside in February 2012 after three years of infertility & our second miracle daughter Juniper Louise in April 2014.
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March 1, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Wow! It gave me goosebumps! Beautiful! :))))
xoxo!