Walden the book & Concord the Town

Here is the end of the 2 years, 2 months and 2 day marathon, my friends (12/12/20-2/14/2023) The end of the book, but not the end of the TranscendentalConcord.com projects & podcasts. I hope that you will write your own version of Walden, there is more day to dawn! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

What has Henry learned? What have I learned? What have you learned? Travel, but don't do it to escape yourself-travel inside yourself. And don't get into a rut. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Dramatic transition from -20 degrees to springtime weather. Additional commentaries are recorded at Walden Woods Stonehenge & the replica Cabin. (I had recorded some down on the beach itself in the rain but WiFi or Spirits didn't want it to process properly, lol) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

It's Spring, finally, but HDT dwells on the melting ice and the transformation of sand & clay into melted forms. Deep Cut is described perfectly. And he fights with his downstairs neighbors, the red squirrels. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Ice ice and more ice! Ice cutting and ice ending up in India. Also, the dangers of phrenology and using pseudoscience as bad metaphors. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

He awakens to a question and then realizes the answer is right there. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry talks about his winter observations. The squirrels performing for an unseen audience, the hounds who suddenly understand a mystery. And how Walden is a restless sleeper & bedfellow. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Winter Visitors Section: I'm a hiker and spent many days cronching through the leaves, just like HDT did through the snow. Who visited him? Can you guess? Emerson, Alcott and Channing-but can you tell who they are by his descriptions? You'll be surprised.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

HDT discusses the African Americans living in Walden Woods before he built his hut. If you want more info, find Black Walden by Elise Lemire which offers a much deeper context and lots of research about the people who don't usually get mentioned in the histories about Walden. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry falls in love with his fireplace. “You can always see a face in the fire” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry gathers food for the winter & builds his chimney out of second hand bricks. Recycling & eating wild apples before it was trendy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry writes a mini-play! Plus the history of the War of the Red Ants vs the Black Ants & his “loony” antics with a bird neighbor. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Thoreau discusses hunting, fishing, eating animals and not eating them. Is this chapter about vegetarianism or morality? Give a listen and see for yourself! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Happy tree descriptions as he runs through the forest. Then he visits an Irish Family & tells them how to save their money if only they'd stop buying Starbucks. Well, kinda. It's a difficult chapter that shows quite a bit of arrogance. See for yourself! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry dives deep into what it is like to live in relation to Walden. A huge body of water as your immediate neighbor, how sacred, and how it gets profaned. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry finally gets to the main character of Walden, the Pond itself! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry walks to town, runs the gauntlet of gossip from the townspeople. Once, he even got arrested! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry gets his hands dirty while contemplating what it means “to know beans”. Sarcasm alert! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Thoreau tells us about the people who come by his Cabin by the Pond --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry talks about how he's never really alone. You can be alone in a crowd. Are you really alone when you are focused on work-studying or out in the field, or gardening? Be sure to listen for the line about his Pine Needle friends. ;) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry talks about the sounds (snd smells) of civilization entering into his world by means of the trains. Also, owls, birds and frogs haunt him at all hours. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry discusses what it is like to let the woods tell its own story to him. He sits and lets the world go by, the trains, the animals, the pinnate leaves on the tree. What would it be like if we listened to the world WE are in? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Ancient Greek and Latin are Henry's starting points. A great chapter for book nerds and those who believe we should keep learning our whole lives! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

One of the most dense sections, he touches upon time, trains, the news, the post office, and how to simplify, simplify, simplify! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry buys every farm in Concord (in his mind) before he settles on his spot at Walden. Who needs open windows when you have a half-finished hut? You have protection from the rain but you also have fresh air! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry talks about furniture (who needs it anyways?) and the cynical side of philanthropy. Also, starting in 2021, May 6 is now an annual Celebration of Life at Walden Pond, to mark Thoreau's death (in 1862) and anyone else you may want to honor. This podcaster honored her beloved mother. It is a place of peace, standing alone or with the book. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry itemizes his farming life and food. He offers his bread making recipe (Who needs yeast? Who needs salt?) And the Woodchuck! He also mentions Thebes, which has a new relevance now for me. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry talks about the proper way to get an education, economics of renting vs building, the folly of the railroad and Harriet Martineau! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Here we get down to the nuts & bolts of Henry's carpentry practice. A guidebook & philosophy all in one. Plus info about visiting Concord & how the Colonial Inn is so central to the good stuff. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Plight of farmers, are we all digging our our graves? Why bother with gewgaws? Commentary includes notes from commons.digitalthoreau.org hosted by the Walden Woods project. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Henry asks what kind of shelter does a person need? Penobscot or Laplander or Yankee, a simple wooden box, a wigwam or a palace? (Which do you think he'll choose?) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

In this sixth part of the Economy chapter, we finish the segment on Clothing. And as an experiment, I have a short bit of it read by a native Portuguese speaker. Imagine if we could get people from all over the world to read segments in their native languages? Walden has been translated enough, it's totally possible. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Starting with Thoreau and Native Americans, the Nipmuc people of Concord; continuing through 2 pages of the details and responsibilities of being in business. Also, clothes are there to keep us warm, no matter what your boss or society thinks! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

In this 4th section of Walden's first chapter called Economy, Henry talks about how philosophers choose to be poor and offers his version of a resume. Includes jokes about “watering the plants” and a dig at his editor at The Dial, Margaret Fuller. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

Basic necessities section, what do we REALLY NEED? And why are we so influenced by others to want anything beyond the basics? Food, shelter, empathy. “If I repent of anything it is very likely to be my good behavior” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

In this second section of Economy, Henry covers capitalism, debt, slavery (both actual and metaphorical), vegetarianism and why we shouldn't listen to our elders. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

A reading of the first few pages of Walden, then a discussion of what Henry was talking about in his first few pages, and the strange townspeople he saw, weighed down by life. And then there is a visit to Monument Square in center of Concord. What's with all those marble blocks in that patch of green? One of them is the jail site where Civil Disobedience was born. Yep, right near the parking lot for the hardware store. That's where Henry spent the night-in the middle of his stay at Walden, a jailhouse approximately the size of his cabin! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support

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