Best books on writing

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“He’s in London”

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HDT’s bday

It's the birthday of Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts (1817). He went to Harvard, but he didn't like it very much, nor did he enjoy his later job as a schoolteacher. He seemed destined for a career in his father's pencil factory, and in fact, he came up with a better way to bind graphite and clay, which saved his father money. But in 1844, Thoreau's friend Ralph Waldo Emerson bought land on the shore of Walden Pond, a 61-acre pond, surrounded by woods, and Thoreau decided to build a cabin there. It was only two miles from the village of Concord, and he had frequent visitors. During the two years he lived there, Thoreau kept a journal that he later published as Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854). In the conclusion to Walden, Thoreau wrote, "I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

https://open.substack.com/pub/thewritersalmanac/p/twa-from-wednesday-july-12-2017?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Biking Nashville

I've done that... without bananas. We do have a nice greenway/bikeway system in Nashville.

Not everyone loves Jy 4

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Lose the cat

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👣Solvitur ambulando

💭Sapere aude

Never really apart

We hung out a lot in the Hundred Acre Wood back in the '90s...

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Dave's walks

Walk better

"Feel the peal"

'I'm not just faster, but taller': how I learned to walk properly – and changed my pace, posture and perspective

"…walking can be enough. It can complement other forms of exercise, such as yoga and pilates, but if you don't do anything else, improving your walk can still confer major health benefits…"

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/19/im-not-just-faster-but-taller-how-i-learned-to-walk-properly-and-changed-my-pace-posture-and-perspective?CMP=share_btn_link

The Art of Being a Flâneur: finding joy in the moment

Sometimes the best way to explore a city on foot is to simply wander, with no goal in mind other than to follow the sound of church bells, or drift across a leafy square.

...This sort of aimless strolling is conducive to savoring, to finding joy in the moment, a practice that some social scientists have found can be cultivated and may help lead to a more fulfilling life. In “Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience,” the scholars Fred B. Bryant and Joseph Veroff describe savoring not as mere pleasure, but as an active process that requires presence and mindfulness. It’s “a search for the delectable, delicious, almost gustatory delights of the moment,” as they put it...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/travel/walking-travel-cities.html?smid=em-share