Friday, October 21, 2022

Emerson for the Day



“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?  Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?  Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”

H,D.Thoreau

 Walden: "Sound"

  Photo: "Blue Chair with Chickens" by BK

Monday, October 17, 2022

Man with One Leaf in October Night

 

The leaves turn black when they have learned how to fly
 so does the day
 but in the wind of the first hours of darkness
 sudden joy sent
 from an unknown tree 
 I have not deserved you

--W.S. Merwin