Showing posts with label Thoreau. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thoreau. Show all posts
Friday, November 15, 2013

Leaves Fall, and I Recall Thoreau's Meditation on the Etymology of the Word "Leaf"

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Thoreau says (somewhere) in Walden ,"No wonder that earth expresses itself outwardly with leaves, it so labors with the idea in...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

DADT Repeal: A Victory Not for D.C.'s Beltway Culture, but for Ordinary Citizens

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I'm going through the commentary this morning about the DADT repeal vote, and noting the extent to which commentators are willing to s...
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Thomas Aquinas on the Fecundity of Creation (and the Necessity of Gay Persons to Mirror God's Fecund Nature?)

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These are two separate journal entries from the spring of 1990, on a similar theme: A theological theme keeps popping into my mind. It has ...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Thought for the Day: Thoreau on the Life of Character

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Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep . . . . We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Thought for the Day: Telling Truth Yields Doing Truth

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It takes two to speak the truth,--one to speak and another to hear. Henry David Thoreau, A Walk on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Saturday, June 7, 2008

Bob Herbert:: The Refusal to Submit Quietly and a Better Place

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If op-ed columnists were ice cream flavors, Bob Herbert would be my rocky road, pistachio almond, and lemon ice all rolled into one: my thre...