Fighting for the Right to Ramble & Roam

"…while walking is often a solitary activity, this version made it feel like part of something large and powerful, connected to a whole world of people who would fight for the land."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/magazine/right-to-roam-england.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The Fight for the Right to Trespass

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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.

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