Go Confidently: Connecting generations

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Connecting generations

A few months ago my granddaughter, Melody, was supposed to dress up for school. She knew I had a pioneer dress that I had gotten in 1976 for the bicentennial. She decided to dress as Laura Ingalls Wilder, an author that I have loved since I was very young. I read all her books several times. So I got the dress delivered, and it just melted my heart to see her in it. Melody seems to share my longtime interest in pioneer life.

Above is a photo of me wearing the dress in 1976 and Melody in 2014.

In my quest for simplicity and minimalism, I have gotten rid of a few things. Therefore, I am sure glad I saved this dress.

Thought for the day: It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time Barbara Kingsolver

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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.