Navigation By Dead Reckoning

"In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds." -Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Lived, What I Lived For," in Walden, 1854.

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Location: Pays d'en Haut

"It is not down on any map. True places never are." -Herman Melville, 1851.

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Still Unpacking

I've got some things to say, but the boxes and paintbrushes hold sway as we settle in to our new home. I'm trying to eradicate poison ivy in the backyard, find some obscure parts for an old riding lawnmower that I fully intend to operate while smoking a cigar, and generally figuring out where everything should go.

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