Tag Archives: Walt Whitman

“Be Curious”

“Be curious, not judgmental.”    Walt Whitman “Anyone who stops learning is old… at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”    Henry Ford Curious or judgmental — which … Continue reading

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Something Wonderful

When I chanced upon this lovely poem while leafing through my beloved mom Dorothy’s book, One Thousand Beautiful Things,I knew I wanted to share it with you: Miracles by Walt Whitman Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to … Continue reading

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Something Wonderful

As we relax and restore ourselves, here is a lovely lush and woodsy prose passage by Walt Whitman from one of his journals to inspire and delight us: “I write this memorandum in a wild scene of woods and hills, … Continue reading

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Fellow Travelers

From 1870 through 1920, the great visionary and naturalist Jon Burroughs penned more than two dozen books of nature essays with the goal of encouraging a love of the wilderness. He also wrote the first biography of Walt Whitman ever … Continue reading

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