Henry David Thoreau...my wife thinks he was a "loser" who lived in the woods and never took advantage of his Harvard degree. Almost 200 years later, however, his book is still a best seller and studied by students in schools everywhere, at least by those who can read. (If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can't, thank your cell phone provider.) Admittedly, he does not personally enjoy the royalties, but even if he does not gain the unconditional approval of the Kitty because of his lack of economic success, I think he felt good about himself after publishing "Walden." He was an inhabitant of Massachusetts and visited "The Cape" several times and wrote about it. He was in Provincetown before it was "P-town" and had gay bars. He lived in a small cabin for a year at Walden Pond while writing his epic and built it at a cost of about 20 dollars. That same cabin today, on Nantucket, would sell for $5,350,000. Even though it was the size of a large dog house, it was nevertheless, "waterfront." And as we know, it's all about "Location, location, location," possibly in 'Sconset. Saturday, July 10, 2010
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Henry David Thoreau...my wife thinks he was a "loser" who lived in the woods and never took advantage of his Harvard degree. Almost 200 years later, however, his book is still a best seller and studied by students in schools everywhere, at least by those who can read. (If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can't, thank your cell phone provider.) Admittedly, he does not personally enjoy the royalties, but even if he does not gain the unconditional approval of the Kitty because of his lack of economic success, I think he felt good about himself after publishing "Walden." He was an inhabitant of Massachusetts and visited "The Cape" several times and wrote about it. He was in Provincetown before it was "P-town" and had gay bars. He lived in a small cabin for a year at Walden Pond while writing his epic and built it at a cost of about 20 dollars. That same cabin today, on Nantucket, would sell for $5,350,000. Even though it was the size of a large dog house, it was nevertheless, "waterfront." And as we know, it's all about "Location, location, location," possibly in 'Sconset. 
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I think it harkens back to the concept of simple abundance. It's not about what you have but how you enjoy it. Happiness is paramount to riches alone...balance is a necessity.
ReplyDelete"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either." - Robert Graves
When you hang around with Alpha-Dogs who can operate two cellphones at a time and go into a restaurant and start counting the tables, it pulls the poetry right out of you and tries to replace it with finance. And money cannot buy one single necessity of the soul.
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