"What are you doing now?” he asked. “Do you keep a journal?" "So I make my first entry to-day."
In this way did Henry David Thoreau begin his journal, on the 22 October 1837, when he was still a young man of twenty-two years.
“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.
