A Walk In The Woods - Walden Style
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman One of my favorite outings on our trip to Boston last weekend, was our hike at Walden Pond. When I was doing my solo traveling with my dog Margeaux back in 2024, I drove past the pond, but alas, I could not enter, as NO DOGS ALLOWED, greeted me at the gate. The dogs, both dogs, were kennelled last weekend, so we were free to go wherever we would choose. I'm glad we chose Walden Pond. I read the book while I was camping across the southeast, then all the way up to Acadia in Maine. My solo journey and my reading and my loving canine companion, made for a heart warming, soul moving adventure I will never forget. How I long to live that life... again. When I came across the Whitman quote that starts off this post, it made me wonder, were Thoreau and Whitman contemporaries? So, naturally, I googled it, and yes, according to the Harvard archives, they were. Below ...
