thoreau visitations |
I am walking with Thoreau for the next month or two and I am not ashamed to say the old boy visits me in my office or rides with me in my car or on a plane and we "wish to suggest that a ma...
Posted by Tommy Typical on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:23:00 PST |
st. thomas typicalis |
"Saint Denis said, the most goodly knowing of God is that..which is known by unknowing."
St. Thomas Typicalis says:
I know what I truly am
by what I don't know,
and I shall know God more
the day I u...
Posted by Tommy Typical on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:33:00 PST |
sacred matters |
"You are a foolish idealist" folks sometimes say to me. Others say I must be drunk. Been there done that, but the chiding will not detract me. I know the current state of affairs does not lend itself ...
Posted by Tommy Typical on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:03:00 PST |
conscious sympathy |
It was John Muir who said sadly that most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marble...
Posted by Tommy Typical on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:32:00 PST |
Publius Vergilius Maro |
Vita mutatur, non tollitur (Life is changed, not taken away)Publius Vergilius Maro or as we know him Virgil travelled with Augustus to Greece. There, he caught a fever, from which he died leaving the ...
Posted by Tommy Typical on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:51:00 PST |
passion of a freedom fighter |
Tom Paine had a tear rolling down his left cheek. He reached within himself to find something that would make sense after 200+ years and then he said those words which are as profound today as when th...
Posted by Tommy Typical on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:44:00 PST |
finding a book |
I found the tattered book in an old box with other books in an alley behind Ford's Furniture Store. There were several other boxes of discarded items in the alley and I frequently took that route home...
Posted by Tommy Typical on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:45:00 PST |
old pirate’s true treasure |
For me, I have longed to discover that I am not bound by time..and that this old pirate's true treasure begins with the confidence that I am not here on earth to be perfected according to an image I h...
Posted by Tommy Typical on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:36:00 PST |
air blankets |
As I tried to formulate a few answers, I heard someone speaking in a measured tone. "The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of th...
Posted by Tommy Typical on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:46:00 PST |
Capt. Remault dreams |
After I make a road trip, I dream like crazy of both the past and my most recent traveling adventures as I sleep peacefully.
For as was once spoken, It is stillness that is constant mo...
Posted by Tommy Typical on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:55:00 PST |
