"What Are You Doing Now?"
What are you doing now?” he asked. “Do you keep a journal?” So I make my first entry to-day.
Thus did Henry David Thoreau begin his journal, on the 22 October 1837, when he was still a young man of twenty years. Thoreau died on 6 May, 1862, and his journal had grown significantly. His journal was his constant society and his solitude, his constant companion and his loneliness.
“What are you doing now?” I ask? “Do you keep a blog?” So I make my first entry today, not as a young man of twenty-two, but as an older man nearing the end of a sixth decade. My beard grays, but I have yet a few things to say and learn.
Thus did Henry David Thoreau begin his journal, on the 22 October 1837, when he was still a young man of twenty years. Thoreau died on 6 May, 1862, and his journal had grown significantly. His journal was his constant society and his solitude, his constant companion and his loneliness.
“What are you doing now?” I ask? “Do you keep a blog?” So I make my first entry today, not as a young man of twenty-two, but as an older man nearing the end of a sixth decade. My beard grays, but I have yet a few things to say and learn.
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