5 Acres of Solitude

Here’s today’s message from Thoreau……..on page 192. ” I think that having learned our letters we should read the best that is in literature……..Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading.”

Hummmmm……….no wonder Walden was not particularly popular with the masses.

Love, Lynne

‘Walden’ was the fist book I read after moving to the forest. My book group was willing to read it with me and to meet at my unfinished house for the discussion. We loved the book. Appreciated the work that Thoreau put into this classic. It seems that there are messages on every page. Sooooo……occasionally I ask my inner voice for a number and go to that page and see what message jumps out at me.

Today on page 212 was the message that made me smile……There can be no very black melancholy to him (her) who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

Keeping my senses continues to be a life goal. No very black melancholy here.

Love, Lynne