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Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead...
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.25]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
“I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead un-kind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors.”"
– Henry David Thoreau, from “Monday,” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (location 282 of 882)
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morning backyard through bedroom window
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.24]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.21]
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sun in the elms after the rainstorm
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.23]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.21]
Evening sun breaking through the clouds to some of the upper bows of the Siberian Elms after the rainstorm.
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Now (June 23, 2022)
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.23]
[Last Updated: 2022.06.23]
Here are some of the things I’m working on and thinking about now…
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Ant on Flower Buds
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.19]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
A large ant crawling on the buds of some plant growing through the fence from our neighbors' yard.
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Reading Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.19]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.22]
i’m paddling my way through Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, though it is definitely taking me more than a week.
I have this Library of America edition, but I’m actually mainly reading it on my phone - Standard Ebooks edition, added to the iOS Books app. The LoA edition has reference notes, so I look at it when I can, but I actually like reading on my phone.
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Webmentions
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.18]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
Update: I’m sort of trying to implement webmentions on this website. I think I’m halfway there but I don’t really have any way to actually know because I don’t have any friends and I don’t share anything anywhere anymore.
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Digital Gardening
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.18]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
This is the first seed I’m planting in my digital garden: notes, links, and ideas about digital gardening itself.
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My Backyard Desk
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.18]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.21]
Update: my wife referred to this as my “moveable grotto,” which is ridiculous, but probably better. Definitely better.
Original: a view from my backyard “desk” just as I was creating the home page for my new “digital” garden.
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A Garden
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.18]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
I’m composting and preparing the soil for my digital garden! This will be my public(ish) learning notebook. First seeds (notes,links,ideas) I’m hoping to plant here: