![]() ![]() –Henry David Thoreau, from his Journals, June 30, 1840. So thin is it, and yet so full of life so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least serviceable.^ So am I blown on by God’s breath, so flutter and flap, and fill gently out with the breeze.” The breeze it plays with has been outdoors so long. If it swells and tugs, it is because the sun lays his windy finger on it. It is a free, buoyant creature, the bauble of the heavens and the earth. The varying temperature of distant atmospheres is graduated on its scale. I watch the play of its pulse, as if it were my own blood beating there. ![]() I could watch the motions of a sail forever, they are so rich and full of meaning. The sail bends gently to the breeze, as swells some generous impulse of the heart, and anon flutters and flaps with a kind of human suspense. The wind came blowing blithely from the southwest fields, and stepped into the folds of our sail like a winged horse, pulling with a strong and steady impulse. “I sailed from Fair Haven last evening as gently and steadily as the clouds sail through the atmosphere. Today’s document from the National Archives. Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway. Today: Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. ![]() ‘Everyone fears a bear,’ he says, ‘but when you see one your fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ And that’s how it is with me.’ But go with the firm intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at Kostroma used to tell me. In ‘War and Peace,’ Tolstoi wrote: ‘ If you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. It was on this day in 1804 that Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in Weehawken, N.J., across from Manhattan. ![]()
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