Unimproved Ends: Emerson for the Day

"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.  They are but improved means to unimproved ends...

...a man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

Thoreau
Walden 1854

Quote From Memory

"I get all the news I need from the weather report/
I can gather all the news I need from the weather report/
Mmmm, I got nothing to do today but smile
dodio dodio dodio dodio.../Here I am..."

Paul Simon
"The Only Living Boy in New York"