Gardening With Purpose
It's time to start some seeds. We still don't have a great place to garden but it is improving each season. Pesky critters were quite a problem last year so we are working to improve this as well as...
View ArticleJobs, Work, and Taking Control of Possessions (an updated ramble)
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Possessions don't make us happy! Situations do. Possessions, desire, covetousness,...
View ArticleIda Tarbell says:
Originally posted on The Müscleheaded Blog: “If it has taught us anything, it is that our present law-makers, as a body, are ignorant, corrupt and unprincipled; that the majority of them are, directly...
View ArticleThoughts on Labor – 1854
"The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so...
View ArticleYour Rights vs. Doing the Right Thing
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. G.K. Chesterton I've had an interest in Chesterton for quite a few years now and have really enjoyed reading his...
View ArticleThe Impartiality of Nature – from “Woodcraft and Camping”
“...there are some who plunge into an unbroken forest with a feeling of fresh, free, invigorating delight... These know that nature is stern, hard, immovable and terrible in unrelenting cruelty. When...
View ArticleHappiness in Simplicity
A LITTLE CARAVANNING HISTORY At the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, the young artist Frances Jennings became a semi-invalid and was advised by her doctor to spend as much time as she...
View ArticleWisdom of Dan Beard
On Loneliness “When you feel you are sleeping on the breast of your mother, the earth, while your father, the sky, with his millions of eyes is watching over you, and that you are surrounded by your...
View ArticleScience and Self-Correction
“One of the reasons for its success is is that science has a built-in, error correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we...
View ArticleFriends
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” Wise words from a wise man. Stay safe…
View ArticleHiking, Backpacking, or Just Enjoy the Walk
“Hiking – I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not hike! Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle...
View ArticleA Need for Heroism
There is a need for learning the right stories in childhood. “Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise...
View ArticleHenry David Thoreau, “Woods Burner”
Here’s an interesting article about Thoreau’s early career and the incident that may have been a catalyst for his move out of town into the woods nearby. As it happened a year before the Walden...
View ArticleDugald Semple and a Simple Life
I would like to re-share this older post I wrote about a caravaner, scholar, and philosopher I am quite intrigued by – Dugald Semple Dugald Semple was a Scottish philosopher of the early 20th Century...
View ArticleDon’t Waste It
I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted. W.C. Fields was a wise philosopher with a great sense of humor.
View ArticleEscape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane…
This thought feels more pertinent than ever right now. Instead of just finding faults in others, I think it wise to examine who else stands on the side you are on. Are these the people you want to...
View ArticleRules of Conduct – From the Pen of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson wrote reams of good advice, important political philosophy, the Declaration of Independence, and many other things (which is why we know so much about him). To some of his younger...
View ArticleBaden-Powell’s Last Message to Scouts
Most people that know me are aware that I owe much of my foundation and success in life to a very positive experience in the Boy Scouts of America. There were many lame troops and leaders not worth...
View ArticleDon’t Forget to Enjoy the Ride
I know this year has been very strange for most of us but please remember… Life is Short. If you’re fortunate enough to live with the means and privilege and food security, consider yourself lucky....
View ArticleAvoiding Hate
“The truly sociable man is more difficult in his relationships than others; those which consist only in false appearances cannot suit him. He prefers to live far from wicked men without thinking about...
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