When I first read Walden back in high school I realized that I was innately a transcendentalist. So today’s quote is to celebrate that moment:
As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.
~Henry David Thoreau
I have been much taken with Thoreau, and I drive past Walden Pond about once a week. We contradance in Concord in a building that existed in his day.
Actually, I find the whole crew from Concord pretty interesting- The Emersons, the Hawthorns, the Alcots, Margaret Fuller, plus our friend Henry David and the various Boston/Cambridge folks who like comets passed through their lives- Melville, Longfellow, publisher James Fields and his fascinating wife Annie, later lover of the remarkable Sarah Orne Jewett, Horace Mann (Hawthorn’s brother in law), and… and… Surely I should stop!