Deliberately Floating from Past to Future (mostly the music and links) May 30, 2023
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Many blessings to all.
“Gradually the village murmur subsided, and we seemed to be embarked on the placid current of our dreams, floating from past to future as silently as one awakes to fresh morning or evening thoughts.”
– quoted from “SATURDAY” in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was a teacher and a writer, who is remembered as a writer and naturalist. He self-published his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, today (May 30th) in 1849. It was the story of a trip he took with his brother John over 10 years before. Click here to read more about Thoreau, his relationship with his brother, and where he went to write and “to live deliberately….”
Please join me today (Tuesday, May 30th) at 12:00 PM or 7:15 PM for a yoga practice on Zoom. You can use the link from the “Class Schedules” calendar if you run into any problems checking into the class. You can request an audio recording of this practice via a comment below or (for a slightly faster reply) you can email me at myra (at) ajoyfulpractice.com.
Tuesday’s playlist is available on YouTube and Spotify. [Look for “05302021 Speaking of a Strenuous, Deliberate Life”]
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