{"id":9740,"date":"2014-01-24T21:55:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T01:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=9740"},"modified":"2014-01-24T21:55:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T01:55:25","slug":"friday-night-walden-gulch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/01\/24\/friday-night-walden-gulch\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night \u2013 Walden gulch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very nice visit with my folks last night. Trying to get down there as much as I can these days.<\/p>\n

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I had to get up and out of there this morning early to make two calls before going to work at Littleton. I had exactly 25 minutes of free time and as I was driving I saw a sign to Walden pond. Now I am a big fan of Henry David Thoreau. And I couldn't miss a chance to go visit his famous haunt.<\/p>\n

I followed my GPS to a pull off and given the time was short I charged into ankle deep snow and ran into the woods in the direction that I thought it was. After about five minutes of running around … no sign of the pond. It might be down in this valley, but I really couldn't tell. All I saw was this cool chimney. Still it felt peaceful in kind of a wet and frozen socks sort of way.<\/p>\n

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\nI took about 45 seconds to contemplate life and enjoy the silence and my own company until I got tired of that went back to the car and charge off to my meetings. Late as ever…<\/p>\n

Now that's transcendentalism !
\nNight all, night Sam
\n\u2013 Me<\/p>\n

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