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When Life Is Slow, Go Even Slower - Forge
A note to myself from the side of the highway https://kategreentripp.medium.com/?source=post_page-----3a340c067550----------------------------------- Kate Green Tripp https://forge.medium.com/when-life-is-slow-go-even-slower-3a340c067550?source=post_page-----3a340c067550----------------------------------- Dec 13, 2021·3 min readPhoto: Artur Łuczka / Unsplash Last week, my car needed service. I typically manage such days of privileged inconvenience by dropping my car at the dealer and grabbing...
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Is Anywhere Safe from Climate Change? - Paul Greenberg - Medium
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I thought my vision was pretty good. Not quite 20–20, but close. Then I read Thoreau.
Yes, *that *Thoreau. Forget what you may have read by or about the “hermit Concord.” He is misunderstood. His experiment on Walden Pond was about seeing. All the rest — the solitude, the simplicity — were means to this end.
https://ericweiner.medium.com/?source=post_page-----32fd0a4fd1ca-----------------------------------
Photo by Harry Quan on Unsplash
I thought my vision was pretty good. Not quite 20–20, but close. Then I read Thoreau.
Yes, *that *Thoreau. Forget what you may have read by or about the “hermit Concord.” He is misunderstood. His experiment on Walden Pond was about seeing. All the rest — the solitude, the simplicity — were means to this end.
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