“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived … I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner…”
(61) (Thoreau, 1854).
As I clean my closets and cabinets for this move, both real and digital, I find little self reminders and messages. According to the time stamp of file creation, at some point exactly two years ago to the day, at 5:30am, I decided this quote from Walden was something for me to save to ponder.
“and if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it…”
Get busy living, Red.