Category Archives: Wandering Wisdoms

Surfaces

Posted on April 30, 2014 by mlgray

Virtues of Travel: Part 4 For my own part I am pleased enough with surfaces– in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child’s hand in your … Continue reading →

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Patience

Posted on February 9, 2014 by mlgray

Virtues of Travel: Part 2 I’m standing in-line at the grocery store, a long line, the wrong line, (you know, the one you thought would move faster than the others, but it turns out to have the customers with the … Continue reading →

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Thoreau

Posted on January 5, 2014 by mlgray

If a man walks in the woods for his love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods … Continue reading →

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Wandering Wisdoms: V.2

Posted on July 24, 2013 by mlgray

Tears have kept on falling. History has taught them its slanted understanding of the human face.  At each last embrace the snow brings down its disintegrating curtain. The mind shreds the present, once the past is over. — Galway Kinnel, … Continue reading →

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Wandering Wisdoms: V.1

Posted on July 9, 2013 by mlgray

“To me too has not unrest been ordained, have not I too been endowed with a heart which knoweth not repose? The story-teller’s star — is it not the moon, lord of the road, the wanderer, who moves in his … Continue reading →

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