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Walden is almost finished. I took a huge dose of Thoreau in one day and am not sure I’ll survive. Beans and rice are looking better and better. Seriously though, though he may be promoting a good life for a hermetic philosopher and while some of the concepts he preaches will bear out in a modified form, I think he is missing any principle of joy and blessing. Shouting children, enthusiastic celebration, feasting, work cheerfully undertaken, etc. There is a freedom in not having but there is both freedom and blessing in having and holding loosely. I am with him on the vegetarian thing in one respect. If I had to raise and process all my own food, I’d be completly vegetarian too. Thank God for the supermarket!

Today I have to bake a batch of cookies, make candy, clean the house, sort out the place settings, and read Plato’s Republic. Whew! I think I’m getting help though in the form of my sister Quinn and our friend Megan so we might finish before the sun goes down…

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