#thoreau — Public Fediverse posts
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#nature #environment #environmentalscience #thoreau
Thoreau the scientist – how environmental research informed ‘Walden’ and later works
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"#HenryDavidThoreau investigated the Sudbury River as America’s first river scientist."
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#6Mayo Tal día como hoy muere Henry David #Thoreau en 1862. El escritor, poeta y filósofo trascendentalista, autor de #Walden, es uno de los padres de la literatura estadounidense e inventor de la doctrina de la desobediencia civil #FelizMiércoles
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #assistance #busybody #charity #doinggood #gift #help #meddling #power #reform
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #assistance #busybody #charity #doinggood #gift #help #meddling #power #reform
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #assistance #busybody #charity #doinggood #gift #help #meddling #power #reform
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #assistance #busybody #charity #doinggood #gift #help #meddling #power #reform
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Wednesday” (1849)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #art #artistry #erosion #sculpture #water #wind #nature
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It is remarkable, that notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Sunday” (1849)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #Bible #Christianity #Christians #hypocrisy #lipservice #NewTestament
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Can't wait to see this. "Henry David Thoreau helped define modern environmentalism and nonviolent resistance, yet his life has been obscured by myth. The author of Walden and Civil Disobedience, he was brilliant but flawed, idealistic but opinionated." #UU #UUA #Minimalism #Thoreau #Nature #Nature
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The Legibility of Time: What Physics, Governance, and Poetry Have in Common
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-legibility-of-time?r=pvxh5
#philosophy #physics #reading #books #time #rovelli #bergson #einstein #legibility #method #thoreau #weeds #flowers #blog
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The Legibility of Time: What Physics, Governance, and Poetry Have in Common
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-legibility-of-time?r=pvxh5
#philosophy #physics #reading #books #time #rovelli #bergson #einstein #legibility #method #thoreau #weeds #flowers #blog
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The Legibility of Time: What Physics, Governance, and Poetry Have in Common
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-legibility-of-time?r=pvxh5
#philosophy #physics #reading #books #time #rovelli #bergson #einstein #legibility #method #thoreau #weeds #flowers #blog
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The Legibility of Time: What Physics, Governance, and Poetry Have in Common
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-legibility-of-time?r=pvxh5
#philosophy #physics #reading #books #time #rovelli #bergson #einstein #legibility #method #thoreau #weeds #flowers #blog
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The Legibility of Time: What Physics, Governance, and Poetry Have in Common
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-legibility-of-time?r=pvxh5
#philosophy #physics #reading #books #time #rovelli #bergson #einstein #legibility #method #thoreau #weeds #flowers #blog
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 18 “Conclusion” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #differentdrummer #dissident #eccentricity #heterogeneity #independence #individualism #individuality #inspiration #meme #nonconformist #pace #selfdirection #tempo #time #unconventionality #uniqueness #difference
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Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction, — a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 18 “Conclusion” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #walden #accomplishment #labor #muse #satisfaction #work
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 3 “Reading” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthroeau #walden #book #coursechange #epiphany #era #reading #seachange $turningpoint #change
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"If you are restricted in your range by poverty, if you cannot buy books and newspapers, for instance, you are but confined to the most significant and vital experiences. Money is not required to buy one necessity for the soul." - Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden' #BookChatweekly #booksky #Thoreau
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No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #appearances #clothes #clothing #conscience #earthly #ethics #facade #fashion #morality #priorities #reputation #virtue
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No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #appearances #clothes #clothing #conscience #earthly #ethics #facade #fashion #morality #priorities #reputation #virtue
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #change #clothes #clothing #reform #selfimprovement #trappings
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #walden #class #clothing #nakedness #nudity #rank #socialstatus #society #status #statussymbol
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In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)More info about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #walden #aim #aspiration #attempt #failure #goal #ideal #success #target #worthwhile
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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 18 "Conclusion" (1854)More info about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #walden #rhythm #attainment #desperation #effort #enterprise #haste #individualism #pace #rushing #selfdirected #success
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Celebrate National Video Game Day with "Walden, a game", the educational game from USC Game Innovation Lab. ELA teachers rave about it!
A version of this game is available free for educators and our lesson plans are free, as well.
Learn more about teaching with Walden, a game and get your free curriculum guide now.
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@education @edtech @homeschooling @gaming
#EdTech #Education #Homeschooling #Thoreau #EnglishLanguageArts #NationalVideoGameDay #Gaming
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It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Wednesday” (1849)More info about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #integrity #communication #honesty #listener #mutualresponsibility #speaker #truth
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🌿 The Strength of Nature
Botanic gardens just held their annual Water Lily Weigh-Off — and some of these giant lily pads held over 180 lbs.No fanfare. No force. Just light, patience, and quiet strength.
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
— ThoreauNature doesn't seek power.
It just grows.#GoodNews #Nature #Strength #Thoreau #Growth #WaterLily #Hope #QuietPower
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A quotation from Henry David Thoreau
You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Sunday” (1849)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #changeofmind #conviction #convincing #generations #progress
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When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1860-07-04), “The Last Days of John Brown,” North Elba, MassachusettsSourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #action #appreciation #deed #gooddeed #heroism #perspective #righteousness
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When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1860-07-04), “The Last Days of John Brown,” North Elba, MassachusettsSourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #action #appreciation #deed #gooddeed #heroism #perspective #righteousness
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Others, craven-hearted, said disparagingly, that “he threw his life away,” because he resisted the government. Which way have they thrown their lives, pray? — such as would praise a man for attacking singly an ordinary band of thieves or murderers.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1859-10-30), “A Plea for Captain John Brown,” Concord, MassachusettsSourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #goodcause #death #dedication #gooddeath #lifeanddeath #rebellion #resistance #worthwhile
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So Far Gone
July 2, 2025SO FAR GONE rating: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.
I love the concept of SO FAR GONE by Jess Walter (HarperCollins, June 10, 2025). In 2016, former writer and journalist Rhys Kinnick pitches his smartphone out of his car window, drives to 40 acres in Northwest Washington State (where his grandfather left a cinderblock dwelling now inhabited by raccoons), and ekes out a sort-of-WALDEN-like existence off the grid–if Thoreau had Spokane neighbors who became good friends (they would have been Massachusett, in Thoreau’s case) and gone grocery shopping.1Actually, according to this New Yorker piece by Kathryn Shultz, “The Moral Judgments of Henry David Thoreau” (October 12, 2015), Walden Pond was an easy walk to Thoreau’s mother’s house, he dined regularly with friends, he played the host himself, and his sisters brought him food, so if there had been a grid to be on in 1845-47, Thoreau would have been on it, all the while moralizing against it.
Kinnick’s daughter Bethany is married to a Christian nationalist conspiracy theorist named Shane, whom Rhys punches in the face at Thanksgiving dinner. This rash decision, plus the 2016 election, are factors in Rhys’s decision to go and live as a near hermit. He has no friends, and his family, he supposes, do not need him. The world has no more use for him at all. If I had 40 acres I’d be tempted to throw my phone out the window and go live off the grid too, but could not because of my family, which is kind of the point. But the insanity of today’s ultra-connected and distracted world, and the alienation from the natural world, is also the point. People need each other, no matter how messed up the world we inhabit. Even if we are introverts, curmudgeons, iconoclasts, and fed up to the teeth with it all.
As our hero learns when, eight years after his disappearance, his two grandchildren show up on his doorstep in the company of a neighbor and report that his daughter Bethany has disappeared. Now what?
The author did his research on Christian Nationalism. Wacko men’s retreats,2here is a retreat light on the Bible study and heavy on shooting guns. betrothals of children to adults, forced conversion therapy of boys and men who don’t even think they are gay, demands for women to unconditionally submit to their husbands,3 I recommend the amazing memoir A WELL-TRAINED WIFE by Tia Levings about which I blogged on 3/11/2024 if you want to know where total submission can lead. completely unhinged conspiracy theories. . .as someone who came out of this deranged culture in 2001, all of this tracks.
I was a bit skeptical of the reason the author provides for Shane’s descent into madness. It’s possible that fear drives people into extremist right wing cults, but in my case, in 1990 I really wanted to make God happy and do religion “correctly”–get everything precisely right. Okay, so maybe it was my fear. I wanted a big family that God was extremely happy with, that would be absolutely safe from harm and evil. I wanted to WIN. Which is not the point of the Christian faith at all.4For more on this if you’re interested, check out NOT IN IT TO WIN IT by Andy Stanley which I just loaned to my priest.
This book would make a wonderful series. Great characters, zany road trip adventures, a hilarious detective, ecology. The rootedness of the novel in a specific place was charming; the author is based in Spokane. It reminded me of MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT by Nina Simon in that way, set lovingly in the author’s stomping grounds.5 See my blog of August 2, 2023 on Simon’s novel. It’s deeply ironic too: any extreme form of escape from healthy interrelationships is “so far gone,” whether in a cabin all alone or in a compound full of zealots.
Reading in context:
Other books in which children end up with grownups other than their parents and mutual transformation occurs: THE GOOD LORD BIRD by James McBride (Penguin Random House, 2013) TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis (Simon & Schuster 1968), NEWS OF THE WORLD by Paulette Jiles (HarperCollins, 2016), and several children’s classics. The ability of the children to change their grandfather and vice versa in a natural setting was not given enough pages in my opinion, which is the only reason this is not a five-star book.
The only other book I’ve read by Jess Walter is BEAUTIFUL RUINS which my LibraryThing shelf says I finished on March 1, 2013. I ate it all up, gave it 4 stars, and have a copy in my home collection.
What I’m reading now:
I just finished F*CKED UP FAIRY TALES by Liz Gotauco (W. W. Norton & Company, October 2025) and there is a podcast! Good thing too, because I am sad that the book is over.
#SoFarGone #JessWalter #Thoreau #Walden #ChristianNationalism #TiaLevings #AWellTrainedWife #NotInItToWinIt #AndyStanley #Christianity #MotherDaughterMurderNight #NinaSimon #TheGoodLordBird #JamesMacBride #TrueGrit #CharlesPortis #NewsOfTheWorld #PauletteJiles #BeautifulRuins
#AndyStanley #AWellTrainedWife #BeautifulRuins #CharlesPortis #Christianity #ChristianNationalism #JamesMacBride #JessWalter #MotherDaughterMurderNight #NewsOfTheWorld #NinaSimon #NotInItToWinIt #PauletteJiles #SoFarGone #TheGoodLordBird #Thoreau #TiaLevings #TrueGrit #Walden
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So Far Gone
July 2, 2025SO FAR GONE rating: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.
I love the concept of SO FAR GONE by Jess Walter (HarperCollins, June 10, 2025). In 2016, former writer and journalist Rhys Kinnick pitches his smartphone out of his car window, drives to 40 acres in Northwest Washington State (where his grandfather left a cinderblock dwelling now inhabited by raccoons), and ekes out a sort-of-WALDEN-like existence off the grid–if Thoreau had Spokane neighbors who became good friends (they would have been Massachusett, in Thoreau’s case) and gone grocery shopping.1Actually, according to this New Yorker piece by Kathryn Shultz, “The Moral Judgments of Henry David Thoreau” (October 12, 2015), Walden Pond was an easy walk to Thoreau’s mother’s house, he dined regularly with friends, he played the host himself, and his sisters brought him food, so if there had been a grid to be on in 1845-47, Thoreau would have been on it, all the while moralizing against it.
Kinnick’s daughter Bethany is married to a Christian nationalist conspiracy theorist named Shane, whom Rhys punches in the face at Thanksgiving dinner. This rash decision, plus the 2016 election, are factors in Rhys’s decision to go and live as a near hermit. He has no friends, and his family, he supposes, do not need him. The world has no more use for him at all. If I had 40 acres I’d be tempted to throw my phone out the window and go live off the grid too, but could not because of my family, which is kind of the point. But the insanity of today’s ultra-connected and distracted world, and the alienation from the natural world, is also the point. People need each other, no matter how messed up the world we inhabit. Even if we are introverts, curmudgeons, iconoclasts, and fed up to the teeth with it all.
As our hero learns when, eight years after his disappearance, his two grandchildren show up on his doorstep in the company of a neighbor and report that his daughter Bethany has disappeared. Now what?
The author did his research on Christian Nationalism. Wacko men’s retreats,2here is a retreat light on the Bible study and heavy on shooting guns. betrothals of children to adults, forced conversion therapy of boys and men who don’t even think they are gay, demands for women to unconditionally submit to their husbands,3 I recommend the amazing memoir A WELL-TRAINED WIFE by Tia Levings about which I blogged on 3/11/2024 if you want to know where total submission can lead. completely unhinged conspiracy theories. . .as someone who came out of this deranged culture in 2001, all of this tracks.
I was a bit skeptical of the reason the author provides for Shane’s descent into madness. It’s possible that fear drives people into extremist right wing cults, but in my case, in 1990 I really wanted to make God happy and do religion “correctly”–get everything precisely right. Okay, so maybe it was my fear. I wanted a big family that God was extremely happy with, that would be absolutely safe from harm and evil. I wanted to WIN. Which is not the point of the Christian faith at all.4For more on this if you’re interested, check out NOT IN IT TO WIN IT by Andy Stanley which I just loaned to my priest.
This book would make a wonderful series. Great characters, zany road trip adventures, a hilarious detective, ecology. The rootedness of the novel in a specific place was charming; the author is based in Spokane. It reminded me of MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT by Nina Simon in that way, set lovingly in the author’s stomping grounds.5 See my blog of August 2, 2023 on Simon’s novel. It’s deeply ironic too: any extreme form of escape from healthy interrelationships is “so far gone,” whether in a cabin all alone or in a compound full of zealots.
Reading in context:
Other books in which children end up with grownups other than their parents and mutual transformation occurs: THE GOOD LORD BIRD by James McBride (Penguin Random House, 2013) TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis (Simon & Schuster 1968), NEWS OF THE WORLD by Paulette Jiles (HarperCollins, 2016), and several children’s classics. The ability of the children to change their grandfather and vice versa in a natural setting was not given enough pages in my opinion, which is the only reason this is not a five-star book.
The only other book I’ve read by Jess Walter is BEAUTIFUL RUINS which my LibraryThing shelf says I finished on March 1, 2013. I ate it all up, gave it 4 stars, and have a copy in my home collection.
What I’m reading now:
I just finished F*CKED UP FAIRY TALES by Liz Gotauco (W. W. Norton & Company, October 2025) and there is a podcast! Good thing too, because I am sad that the book is over.
#SoFarGone #JessWalter #Thoreau #Walden #ChristianNationalism #TiaLevings #AWellTrainedWife #NotInItToWinIt #AndyStanley #Christianity #MotherDaughterMurderNight #NinaSimon #TheGoodLordBird #JamesMacBride #TrueGrit #CharlesPortis #NewsOfTheWorld #PauletteJiles #BeautifulRuins
#AndyStanley #AWellTrainedWife #BeautifulRuins #CharlesPortis #Christianity #ChristianNationalism #JamesMacBride #JessWalter #MotherDaughterMurderNight #NewsOfTheWorld #NinaSimon #NotInItToWinIt #PauletteJiles #SoFarGone #TheGoodLordBird #Thoreau #TiaLevings #TrueGrit #Walden
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So Far Gone
July 2, 2025SO FAR GONE rating: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.
I love the concept of SO FAR GONE by Jess Walter (HarperCollins, June 10, 2025). In 2016, former writer and journalist Rhys Kinnick pitches his smartphone out of his car window, drives to 40 acres in Northwest Washington State (where his grandfather left a cinderblock dwelling now inhabited by raccoons), and ekes out a sort-of-WALDEN-like existence off the grid–if Thoreau had Spokane neighbors who became good friends (they would have been Massachusett, in Thoreau’s case) and gone grocery shopping.1Actually, according to this New Yorker piece by Kathryn Shultz, “The Moral Judgments of Henry David Thoreau” (October 12, 2015), Walden Pond was an easy walk to Thoreau’s mother’s house, he dined regularly with friends, he played the host himself, and his sisters brought him food, so if there had been a grid to be on in 1845-47, Thoreau would have been on it, all the while moralizing against it.
Kinnick’s daughter Bethany is married to a Christian nationalist conspiracy theorist named Shane, whom Rhys punches in the face at Thanksgiving dinner. This rash decision, plus the 2016 election, are factors in Rhys’s decision to go and live as a near hermit. He has no friends, and his family, he supposes, do not need him. The world has no more use for him at all. If I had 40 acres I’d be tempted to throw my phone out the window and go live off the grid too, but could not because of my family, which is kind of the point. But the insanity of today’s ultra-connected and distracted world, and the alienation from the natural world, is also the point. People need each other, no matter how messed up the world we inhabit. Even if we are introverts, curmudgeons, iconoclasts, and fed up to the teeth with it all.
As our hero learns when, eight years after his disappearance, his two grandchildren show up on his doorstep in the company of a neighbor and report that his daughter Bethany has disappeared. Now what?
The author did his research on Christian Nationalism. Wacko men’s retreats,2here is a retreat light on the Bible study and heavy on shooting guns. betrothals of children to adults, forced conversion therapy of boys and men who don’t even think they are gay, demands for women to unconditionally submit to their husbands,3 I recommend the amazing memoir A WELL-TRAINED WIFE by Tia Levings about which I blogged on 3/11/2024 if you want to know where total submission can lead. completely unhinged conspiracy theories. . .as someone who came out of this deranged culture in 2001, all of this tracks.
I was a bit skeptical of the reason the author provides for Shane’s descent into madness. It’s possible that fear drives people into extremist right wing cults, but in my case, in 1990 I really wanted to make God happy and do religion “correctly”–get everything precisely right. Okay, so maybe it was my fear. I wanted a big family that God was extremely happy with, that would be absolutely safe from harm and evil. I wanted to WIN. Which is not the point of the Christian faith at all.4For more on this if you’re interested, check out NOT IN IT TO WIN IT by Andy Stanley which I just loaned to my priest.
This book would make a wonderful series. Great characters, zany road trip adventures, a hilarious detective, ecology. The rootedness of the novel in a specific place was charming; the author is based in Spokane. It reminded me of MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT by Nina Simon in that way, set lovingly in the author’s stomping grounds.5 See my blog of August 2, 2023 on Simon’s novel. It’s deeply ironic too: any extreme form of escape from healthy interrelationships is “so far gone,” whether in a cabin all alone or in a compound full of zealots.
Reading in context:
Other books in which children end up with grownups other than their parents and mutual transformation occurs: THE GOOD LORD BIRD by James McBride (Penguin Random House, 2013) TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis (Simon & Schuster 1968), NEWS OF THE WORLD by Paulette Jiles (HarperCollins, 2016), and several children’s classics. The ability of the children to change their grandfather and vice versa in a natural setting was not given enough pages in my opinion, which is the only reason this is not a five-star book.
The only other book I’ve read by Jess Walter is BEAUTIFUL RUINS which my LibraryThing shelf says I finished on March 1, 2013. I ate it all up, gave it 4 stars, and have a copy in my home collection.
What I’m reading now:
I just finished F*CKED UP FAIRY TALES by Liz Gotauco (W. W. Norton & Company, October 2025) and there is a podcast! Good thing too, because I am sad that the book is over.
#SoFarGone #JessWalter #Thoreau #Walden #ChristianNationalism #TiaLevings #AWellTrainedWife #NotInItToWinIt #AndyStanley #Christianity #MotherDaughterMurderNight #NinaSimon #TheGoodLordBird #JamesMacBride #TrueGrit #CharlesPortis #NewsOfTheWorld #PauletteJiles #BeautifulRuins
#AndyStanley #AWellTrainedWife #BeautifulRuins #CharlesPortis #Christianity #ChristianNationalism #JamesMacBride #JessWalter #MotherDaughterMurderNight #NewsOfTheWorld #NinaSimon #NotInItToWinIt #PauletteJiles #SoFarGone #TheGoodLordBird #Thoreau #TiaLevings #TrueGrit #Walden
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Thanks to @johnbrowntypebeats for reminding me of this gem.
Which reminds me of a good saying:
"I don't argue with people that John Brown would've shot."
And something I need to reread:
"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
by Henry David Thoreau
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71#NoKings #protest #music #resist #SharonJones #JohnBrown #Taxes #Thoreau #TVAC
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Letter (1860-05-20) to Harrison BlakeSourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #dissatisfaction #home #house #intolerance #planet #world
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"Walden, A Game" is a first-person simulation of the life of American philosopher Henry David Thoreau during his experiment in self-reliant living at Walden Pond in 1845. Players experience reflective play as they experience living in nature over the course of a New England year.
Get our free lesson plans for teaching Art, Art History, English Language Arts, Environmental Science, Math, Media Literacy, Science US History and Visual Arts. For grades 9-12.
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#Vegan almond butter date latte #recipe, things you can control, gigantic ancient #sloths, a quote from #Thoreau, walking with #dinosaurs #art by Kristen Eisenbraun and much more #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings
http://contentcatnip.com/2025/06/01/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-155/
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The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable, — of a bad one, to make it less valuable. We can afford that railroad, and all merely material stock, should lose some of its value, for that only compels us to live more simply and economically; but suppose that the value of life itself should be diminished!
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1854-07-04), “Slavery in Massachusetts,” Anti-Slavery Celebration, Framingham, MassachusettsSourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #badgovernment #goodgovernment #government #humanlife #life #values
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or temple on the earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed of them.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Journal (1852-07-14)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #thoreau #aging #ambition #aspirations #dreams #gettingold #grandiosity #growingold #maturity #meme #middleage #practicality #pragmatism #youth
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Attention-Worthy Links for December 2nd, 2024
#Waste Oil #Supercapacitors #cyberattacks #spacecraft #Trump #leverage #threat #negotiating #Biden #squatting #refusal #oil #limits #production #Clutter #Kármán line #Thoreau #Hunter Biden #submarine cable #ITU #ICPC #LSU #sulfur#concrete #Passenger miles #2.3 light-years #Denmark #Løsning Søndermark #Broadband #connecting #school #library #telecom reform #Earth Information #Air and Space Museum #Anacostia #Calvert Cliffs
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A quotation from Thoreau, Henry David:
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But if [the machine of government] is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/16481/#quote #quotes #quotation #breakingthelaw #civildisobedience #government #injustice #law #lawbreaking #thoreau
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Celebrate National Video Game Day with "Walden, a game", the educational game from USC Game Innovation Lab. ELA teachers rave about it!
Get our free teaching guide with classroom-ready lesson plans for nine subjects across the curriculum.
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/walden/
#EdTech #Education #Thoreau #EnglishLanguageArts #NationalVideoGameDay #VideoGames #Gaming #Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling @education @edutooters @gaming
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Audio of lecture
The Uncanniness of the Ordinary
by Stanley #Cavell (1986)#Heidegger #Freud #Lacan #Austin #Wittgenstein #Thoreau
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#January 5, 1856
#OTD Henry David #Thoreau wrote in his #Journal:The thin #Snow... lodging on my coat
Consists of #Beautiful #Star #Crystals...
Perfect little wheels...I should hardly admire [them] more if #Real #Stars fell.
#Nature is full of #Genius [&] #Divinity;
[No] #Snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
[They are the] #Wheels of the #Storm #Chariots.As surely as [the] #Petals of a #Flower are fixed... these countless #SnowStars come whirling to #Earth.
What a #World we live in!
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#November 29, 1832
#OTD Louisa May Alcott, American #Writer & #Poet is born.She grew up in the company of her parents' #Friends - fellow #Transcendentalists like #Emerson, #Hawthorne, #Thoreau, & #Longfellow.
In 1868, she wrote Little #Women and this #Garden-inspired line:
"Jo had learned that #Hearts, like #Flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open #Naturally... "
#Writing #Gardening #Garden #Gardener #Love #Friendship #Forgiveness #Kismet #Kindred #GardenersofMastodon
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Solitude Hill Press is a #publisher designer duo based in #HunterdonCounty #NJ and #AthensGreece. Interested in image driven short form #poetry, French Greek #translation & #visualart collaboration. Just published #Gala, poetry #chapbook w/color illustrations re: #Gala #Eluard #muses & a painting by #DavidSalle. #Artist memoir, #literary nonfiction, #feminist #modernism #MinaLoy #BarbaraHepworth. #Proust #Thoreau #Seferis. We play well with #comparativeliterature friends #introduction (1/2)
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#Walden von #Thoreau als #Beispiel von #Freiheit als #individualliberaler #Abwehr #kollektiver #Bemühungen des #Staates zur #Verwirklichung von #Eigenständigkeit.
vgl. #eigenständig;
#Vorwurf eines #Robinson- #Freiheitsbegriffes dessen #Gegenmodell die #Freiheit als #Zusammenleben mit #anderen #Menschen sei.
#Zeit, 05.01.22, #Politik, S.4, #Interview mit Marco #Buschmann, #Justizminister - Auf der #Mangel an #Freiheit macht #krank