My Greatest Skill

Thoreau said, "My greatest skill has been to want but little."
This is profound.
When we chalk up our lives, we look at all our accomplishments: play an instrument, cook fantastic meals, sing gorgeous songs, build wonderful structures, teach school, write books.
We think of doctors, lawyers, nurses and politicians. Investors, painters, web designers.

But, Thoreau felt his skill of minimalism, his satisfaction with voluntary simplicity, to be his greatest. No doubt his carbon footprint hardly registered at all.
Profound.

Its Cold out There!

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air; drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.Be blown on by all the winds. Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams, and oceans, at all seasons." H. D Thoreau

This guy knew there is no place with perfect weather all the time. So, I walk in the woods, in rain, sleet, and snow. I drink from the spring that is now flowing, after 3 years being dry from the draught. The pine needles are crisp, but I haven't tasted anything else this winter. Its cold out there!

I Went To The Woods

Welcome!

I think it is time to revisit H.D Thoreau's Walden Pond. The father of minimalism, he wrote "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." This in 1854.

How appropriate for 2009, with our free falling economy and fallacious government experts. How long will this recession last? For me, its time to live deliberately, discover the essentials, and find I have, after all, truly lived.

Hey, just my two cents.