I subscribe to Poem-A-Day, a service that, as its name implies, sends one a poem each day, usually around noon. I just received today's, a brief epigrammatic couplet from H.D. Thoreau, which struck me soundly:
My life has been the poem I would have writ
But I could not both live and utter it.
Why so striking? This is precisely how I've felt about this blog for the past several months: I've been so busy doing all the things that whenever I've managed to corner a little time to write about them and reflect on them, I'm too exhausted to think straight.
Yet reflection is essential, and action without reflection is chaos. I'm going to try to reflect more often.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
A Thoreauly deep post
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Great post Patrick. I was thinking the same thing today about my blog and other writing that I'm trying to do. There never seems to be time to reflect, but like you said it is so important!
Thanks for sharing!
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