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September 25, 2005
pleasure of suffering
i wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization...and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man. the season of snows was preferred, that I might experience the pleasure of suffering, and the novelty of danger.
--estwick evans,
A Pedestrious Tour, of Four Thousand Miles,
Through the Western States and Territories,
During the Winter and Spring of 1818.
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September 20, 2005
love, money, fame
rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. the hospitality was as cold as the ices.
--henry david thoreau,
walden
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September 16, 2005
the desert
"to the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality."
--paul shepard, man in the landscape: a historic view of the esthetics of nature
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September 13, 2005
where do we come from? what are we? where are we going?
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painting by: Paul Gauguin
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September 12, 2005
malcolm x picture
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September 8, 2005
things working out 'very well' for poor evacuees from new orleans
In a segment at the top of the show on the surge of evacuees to the Texas city, Barbara Bush said: "Almost everyone I’ve talked to wants to move to Houston."
Then she added: "What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
"And so many of the people in the arenas here, you know, were underprivileged anyway (she chuckled)--this is working very well for them."
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September 1, 2005
benjamin franklin
Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal.
--benjamin franklin
A man is not completely born until he is dead.
--benjamin franklin