Reading Brian Bartlett's Branches Over Ripples now. Highly recommended.

heartily agree with the recommendation of Branches over Ripples!

Brian -- That's the same edition of WALDEN that I bought in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1975! ~ Corinne at the Shop at Walden Pond

I underlined, too, for the first time -- but didn't yet use a ruler.

In keeping with Brian's point about Thoreau's gratitude, it's notable how many times in the Journal Thoreau says "I love" something.

Yes, didn't he explicitly say somewhere that his Journal should be a record of his love? Geoff probably can identify the exact passage.

Nov. 16, 1850. My Journal should be the record of my love. I would write in it only of the things I love, my affection for any aspect of the world, what I love to think of.

Your audio has been cutting out, Henrik.

@jan, in Spanish almost everything but the whole journal (only some selections thereof)

Hi @Jayne, wonderful to see and hear you yesterday!

I think it's an Internet connection problem, Henrik. Image freezes and audio cuts out.

"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men’s, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature." WALDEN

Thoreau generally used the word cabin to describe muskrat lodges!

Just yesterday I found a passage in Thoreau's Journal where Thoreau love of his surveying work (or fence building) as closer to [true or immediate] perception and delightful enjoyment than cultural / literary pursuits (Oct. 29 '57). Is this true connection between our day jobs (surveying) and being aware and persistently observant of the natural world around us always a potential? (I think of the window by my desk-- if I open in, I hear the Bewick's Wren, an arresting sound, a pause in work concentration.)

Thoreau uses "hut" twice in WALDEN according to Walter Harding's Annotated WALDEN, IF, my memory serves me correctly.

Winter Animals: "I took this course when I went to lecture in Lincoln in the evening, travelling in no road and passing no house between my own hut and the lecture room."

Same chapter: "One day a man came to my hut from Lexington to inquire after his hound that made a large track, and had been hunting for a week by himself."

Geoff: according to a place-name analysis I made of Thoreau's journal, the word "house" is his most common way of denoting his shelter on the cove.

Yes, absolutely. Even more so in the Journal.

Pardon me. Thought you were talking about Walden.

Glad that Bergur mentioned right-wing militia in our time and Thoreau from his perspective.

The chilling image Brian mentioned. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-dystopian-lincoln-memorial-photo-raises-a-grim-question-will-they-protect-us-or-will-they-shoot-us/2020/06/03/7a1c52b4-a5b7-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

Thanks for sharing Georg

Geoff

Thank you, panelists, for your time and insights!

Thank you all for a wonderful conversation. I'm imagining the porch at the Colonial Inn

There’s a great discussion of “Resistance to Civil Government” in the Walls biography.

Thank-you MF for your addition.

Well put, Mike!

Including that HDT recognizes his privilege in being able to risk jail for multiple nights — he doesn’t have children, has flexible work — and he realizes how hard it is for his fellow Concordians to take similar risks. An important point.

To Henrik's point, my first experience of civil disobedience was the occupation of the Seabrook nuclear power plant in 1977, when I was a college freshman.

What a glowing conversation! Thank-you to RG for facilitating and to all the panelists for their participation.

Absolutely, Rebecca.

Grateful for all panelists !

"From Thoreau, WALDEN: The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! The faint silvery warblings heard over the partially bare and moist fields from the blue-bird, the song-sparrow, and the red-wing, as if the last flakes of winter tinkled as they fell!"

WALDEN

Thoreau's emphasis on morning also speaks to hope.

Indeed!

MF: wonderful quote!

"Surely joy is the condition of life. Think of the young fry that leap in ponds, the myriads of insects ushered into being on a summer evening, the incessant note of the hyla with which the woods ring in the spring, the nonchalance of the butterfly carrying accident and change painted in a thousand hues upon its wings, or the brook minnow stoutly stemming the current, the lustre of whose scales worn bright by the attrition is reflected upon the bank." "Natural History of Massachusetts," HDT

Michael Berger, I’m working on an essay about morning in Thoreau

Love the quote about joy

Beautiful, Brian! Thanks for this conversation!

I look forward to reading it, Michael!

Gracias! Thanks!!!