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Tag Archives: Ralph Waldo Emerson
My life as a Moody Blues song …
Several entries ago, I mentioned a book on learning to think like Leonardo da Vinci. Well, I am slowly working my way through the exercises (very slowly indeed, as I am mired somewhat at the first one), which is to … Continue reading
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So ends another weekend. We (stardances and I) were hoping to have a quiet weekend to ourselves, just cleaning and organizing and having a very quiet, uneventful time of it. But the lives of teenagers are SO uncertain – it … Continue reading
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Tagged books, computers, Edward Gibbon, ee cummings, Henry Miller, Lady Charlotte Guest, Lewis Turco, Ralph Waldo Emerson, reading
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