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tonight I'll be reading a snoozy excerpt to Walden by transcendentalist

Henry David Thoreau, originally published in 1854.

It is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.

The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and to some degree,

a manual for self-reliance.

Let's get cozy.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths. Where I lived and lived for at a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live.

In imagination within a dozen miles of where I live.

In imagination, I have bought all the farms in succession,

for all were to be bought,

and I knew their price. I walked over each farmer's premises, tasted his

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