And so one night turned into two nights, which begat The Blog of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau's Journal spans more than 25 years and two million words, and it wasn't my plan just to post any old entry for the day, but instead to read every entry written on that day through all that span of years, and choose the best passage I could find.
This book is literally a spiritual journey. Its setting is a ten day vacation in Japan, but its plot is a mystical awakening. Importantly, it’s also a father letting-go his daughter story. Additionally, it’s an homage to the great Japanese bard, Basho. And at its most basic, it’s a travelogue about some amaz-ing places in northern Japan.
To that purpose, I’ve collected what I feel are the best posts, both the short journal entries and the poems. When viewed as an entity, they are a window into the long process of waking into the spirit of the present. This is the ultimate paradox of course, that there need be a long process to attain something which you already are. But, in the context of the dream, there was.
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Print: $18.95 366 selected days from The Journals of Henry David Thoreau
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Print: $15.95 Download: $9.00 How I Learned to Let My Grown-up Daughter Go and Found Myself Awakening
Journeys in Tohoku
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Print: $19.95 Download: $9.00 a journal of awakening
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