Banjo52

Conversation. Especially literature and language, education, football and baseball, movies, history, then and now, birds, two-lane roads. "Banjo" is a fun word, and the instrument can make fine music. But this isn't really a blog about banjos, except in the metaphorical sense of interesting sounds riding across a valley from one porch to another. Click on any photo to enlarge. Students, remember to footnote. All text and photos: © 2009-2014 Banjo52

Showing posts with label THOREAU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label THOREAU. Show all posts
Jul 31, 2013

Green: Thoreau, the Turtle, David Wagoner

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         In looking for information about Thoreau and turtles (what? that doesn’t interest you?), I came across the site of Dr. Sa...
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Jul 10, 2013

Everybody Poops and Everybody Aphorizes: Emerson, Thoreau, and James Richardson

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“Mother Nature is a serial killer. No one’s better.”    That's from the movie World War Z. The speaker is a brilliant young Harvard M.D...
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Jul 3, 2013

Emerson, Thoreau, Georgian Bay

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Northern Rim of Lake Huron, Blind River, Ontario   Ten days ago I returned from a four-day, thousand-mile drive along the east...
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Jul 4, 2010

Independence Day with Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" and a Touch of Thoreau

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On a day for celebrating America, I tried to find some Whitman I could stomach and came up both empty and overwhelmed by gas. So let's t...
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Jul 8, 2009

The Speed of Life: a Real Conversation

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Left: "Bub's Pub Chatter" Rather than do a new full-length entry, I want to celebrate, and refer visitors to my July 6 post. A...
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