Word: walden
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...where he lived in the third-floor attic of his parents' house. His mission, as he told his journal, was "to find God in nature," the Transcendental imperative he absorbed from his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. True, the 26 months Thoreau had spent living alone in a cabin by Walden Pond, memorialized in Walden (1854), involved a similar quest for some "trace of the Ineffable," but now he wanted to remove himself from the center of his observations and let the natural objects he studied speak for him. He hoped, in short, to be less romantic and more scientific...
...literature and eco-criticism. It wasn't narcissism but selflessness--in the most authentic sense of the term, the vanishing of the self--that led Thoreau to tell us about his life in the woods: it was his conviction that individual choices possess some kind of cosmic exemplary significance. Walden is a sort of spiritual biography of man in Nature, told through Thoreau's experience in the woods. The notion is that experience is transcendent of the personal, and indexes the general...
Some seniors who are not my blockmates have used their time to grow as individuals, just as Thoreau did by skipping pebbles at Walden Pond. A few go rockclimbing and one just learned how to play Mah Jong, but for many, all this free time hasn't exactly produced a transcendental effect: that is, seniors thinking, reflecting and growing as people...
...Belmont resident reported that while crossing through the intersection of Concord and Walden Streets, she was almost struck by a car. She said the driver exited his vehicle and began arguing with her and then struck her on the shoulder...
...resident of Jackson Circle reported to CPD that a male resident of Walden Mews and another male jumped him and beat him up. The Walden Mews resident reported that he and the victim agreed to one-on-one fight, which the Jackson Circle resident had lost...