Go Confidently: Snapshots of a Free Summer

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Snapshots of a Free Summer

This is the first summer in well over thirty years that I have not held a job. It has been wonderful having the freedom to truly enjoy it.

Here are few things that made it special

taming a cat (see previous post)

watching hummingbirds all over my backyard

watching a sunflower open

Hanging all my clothes on the line ( haven't used my dryer for a month)

Spending time on gardens

Trip to Nashville

Time with family

Yep, I am one very blessed individual!

Thought for the day: Summer afternoon, summer afternoon...to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James

1 comment:

Olivia StewartSeptember 3, 2013 at 12:53 PM
It really was a beautiful summer! I can't believe it's over. Here's hoping we have a lovely fall ahead!
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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord MA. His father operated a pencil factory, and his mother took in boarders. He attended Harvard where he studied Greek, Latin and German. After college, Ralph Waldo Emerson became his mentor and friend. Through Emerson, he was exposed to Transcendentalism, a school of thought that emphasizes empirical thinking and spiritual matters over the physical world. It also encourages scientific inquiry and observation.
In 1845, Thoreau built a small home on Walden Pond. He spent two years there seeking a simpler life and experimented with working as little as possible. He once wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." He later wrote his famous book, Walden Pond.
He was against slavery, and his 1849 publication of "Civil Disobedience" influenced Martin Luther King, Jr and Gandhi.
He battled tuberculosis and died in 1862.