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Nest giveaway!
How lucky are you? Super store Nest.co.uk is giving away a Muuto leaf lamp to one (very) lucky AMM reader somewhere in the world!
I have this lamp in grey on my office desk and really like the thin line silhouette and pivoting head.
Wanna know how to enter? Of course you do. Simply subscribe to the Nest newsletter here then visit their store and leave a comment below about your favorite piece. (trying to choose just 1 thing is the hardest part!)
Giveaway ends in one week on Tuesday, March 10th.
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225 comments:
yeah, you're sooo right! trying to choose just 1 thing is the real challenge. anyway, i successfully chose one (after a hard time keep scrolling up and down): Sancal Party Armchair it is! :)ReplyDelete
thanks for the giveaway <3
♥ this giveaway! unfortunately could not subscribe to the newsletter yet, but will definitely keep trying!!MGJReplyDelete
- SaraFallheden@instagramMarch 04, 2014
Ooooh how exciting this is!ReplyDelete
I absolutely love lamps, and this giveaway is just too good.
My favorite piece in their store I must say is the 'Nemo Cassina Applique a Volet Pivotant Wall Light'
Thank you for the giveaway!
Vitra hang it all! tseringATweb.deReplyDelete
What a fabulous give away! And what a great shop (which I knew already).ReplyDelete
Indeed it is almost impossible to choose just one product, but right now I would definitely choose the Tamasyn Gambell Textured Cushions.
- Lou StoppardMarch 04, 2014
What a lovely lamp :)ReplyDelete
My favourite piece is the The Österlen Chair by Inga Sempe. It's very simple, but just perfect. The perfect seat for enjoying a good book or a bit of thinking time.
Happy Tuesday!
L x
Hay Archive Hill Desk Storage TrayReplyDelete
so difficult to choose one thing, but one of my favourite things is the ibride Junior Small Polar Bear BookshelfReplyDelete
Good lamp! I want it :)ReplyDelete
I choose Magis Dove Storage Box.I love minimal design & transparent design!
Love the site, had to look at the childrens accessories and love the Magis Flying CarpetReplyDelete
Great giveaway. it's really hard to pick one product. practically impossible! if you twist my arm i'd focus on the Muuto Around Coffee Table, simply because i need a coffee table and not because there aren't a 100 other things on nest i would absolutely love to have.ReplyDelete
I love Nest and all that they stock. Incredible customer service, too! My favorite piece is Santa & Cole Cesta Table Lamp!ReplyDelete
This made my day x
Eames Plastic Armchair RAR, white and wood, classic love!ReplyDelete
The lamp looks amazing:) but i must say that I love the 'Vitra Eames Lounge Chair & Ottoman'. In My childhood I always snuggelt on this chair whith my lovely grandfather. Ooh. I miss this childhood ;) Thank you so much for this giveaway. AlexandraReplyDelete
That'd be the Carl Hansen CH07 Shell chair for me. There's no other chair like it! Tis the quintessential chair by the chair master himself - Hans J. Wegner.ReplyDelete
And very cool giveaway :-)
I'm a simple guy with simple tastes - so the simple lines of the sublime Knoll Barber Osgerby armchair is my favoriteReplyDelete
I just love the Poltrona Frau GranTorino Swivel Armchair!ReplyDelete
I will pick the Muuto black Leaf lamp of couse !ReplyDelete
I didn't knew their webshop but it looks really amazing and I saw allready that they also send to the Netherlands :)
I hope I win the Leaf lamp, so I can put it on my white desk. Can't wait!
Oh really tricky one, but I guess I'll have to choose for the classic one - wishbone chair by Carl Hansen it is :)ReplyDelete
- Lamana
I will pick the black Leaf lamp of couse !ReplyDelete
I didn't knew this webshop but it looks amazing. And I already saw they also deliver in the Netherlands!
I hope I win the Leaf lamp because it will fit perfect on my white desk.
fingers crossed ,
Innermost Jeeves Suspension Light looks pretty coolReplyDelete
Magis Pingy the Penguin.ReplyDelete
Rachel Craig
The Flos Arco Floor Lamp is just what I am looking for. It is stylish and pracitcal.ReplyDelete
Sancal Party ArmchairReplyDelete
I love this! SO stylish! http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/lighting/wall-lights/atelier-areti-steps-wallfloor-lightReplyDelete
First thing what I need from there would be Ercol Love Seat. It have been a long time in my wish list.ReplyDelete
love that much no favourites would take everything homeReplyDelete
Signed up for the newsletter and then I got to surf around the website.. It truly is full of things that I would love to own. One of my current favorites is this Flos lamp:ReplyDelete
But also that Muuto leaf lamp is beautiful. My working desk would need a new lamp because the old lamp is too small to give light enough. So fingers crossed! :)
Amazing! My dream lighting is Tom Dixon Copper Shade Light, so I´d go with that... :) Thanks for this giveaway!ReplyDelete
I would love to own one of the Tom Dixon Copper Shade Lights... Awesome selection of everything in this shop! Thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
That's certainly a tough challenge to name just one item, but since I dallied over it for quite a time, I choose the Rosendahl Arne Jacobson City Hall Clock!ReplyDelete
I'm confession lightening has always received too less attention in my home styling. It's so easy to only focus on its function than style... Since I lived in Copenhagen my attitude changed especially from the very first moment I saw the Gubi Gräshoppa Lamp in their show room! So picking only ONE thing wasn't hard for me - it's the one and only, Greta Grossman's iconic floor lamp.ReplyDelete
My desk deserves a stylish lamp, too. And the Muuto leaf lamp would perfectly match!
Oh wow I would love love that! I was just looking about it for my birthday in a few days heheReplyDelete
It's really hard to choose like you said but for some reason the first thing I checked was the chairs section and their eames chairs ♥ The Vitra DKW Eames Wire Chair is definitely one of my favorites!
- Michelle SmithMarch 04, 2014
Well I've been on the Nest website for quite a while just scrolling through the wonderful designs, but I've got to round it down to the Eames plastic side chair. Love the details of it! (Rachel Tan May Shen)ReplyDelete
Signed up! A hard choice but would love to own the Munna Lolita Armchair - if I win the lottery!ReplyDelete
The piece I find most beautiful is the Copenhagen round table, the beautiful slick black top and the delicate natural timber detailing in the legs is the perfect contrast. Good luck everyone xReplyDelete
Anglepoise Duo 1227 Floor Lamp would be a most desirable asset for my reading and computer travails, as of course would be the prize lamp.ReplyDelete
Fallen in love with everything like you said, but the Eames plastic side chair definitely caught my eye this time :)ReplyDelete
I adore the Ecletic candles by Tom Dixon! (Esther Tan) :)ReplyDelete
Subscription has been made with my Hotmail account, hopefully that's okay.ReplyDelete
Picking just one favorite piece is torture. What a cool shop - I wish I had gazillion to spend there. But I've picked the Mayor Sofa by Arne Jacobsen http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/designer/arne-jacobsen/tradition-mayor-sofa-smoked-oak - I think it is a masterpiece.
The Leaf lamp is an absolute beauty and it would do wonders on my desk, I'm sure of it.
Thanks for an amazing blog (and congrats on your beautiful baby girl)
Louise Fogh
My favourite id definetely the HAY About A Lounge Chair High, but would love to win the Muuto lamp too! :)ReplyDelete
It's hard to choose, but at the moment my favourite is Atelier Areti Two Spheres Ceiling Light.ReplyDelete
great selection of products!ReplyDelete
this 'Atelier Areti Squares Floor Light' is so original (http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/lighting/-/areti-squares-floor-light)
Amazing giveaway! Oh, I want almost every piece but I had my eyes on the Muuto wood lamp for so long :)ReplyDelete
- Kristin KrogMarch 04, 2014
So hard to choose a favourite, but I have loved the Catch chair from &Tradition ever since I saw it the first time -ReplyDelete
I've signed up and of course my favorite item is this leaf lamp. I love Nest. I order from them all the time. Now, I'll wait and see if my good Karma comes through for me. Ha! xxReplyDelete
I absolutely love the E15 CT01 Basso Coffee Table this would be amazing as the centre piece of my living room!ReplyDelete
Oh god, don't know. Probably the Artek 403 Hallway Armchair!ReplyDelete
I looove this lamp and have to compete. Fingers crossed :)ReplyDelete
Have signed up to their news letter and my favorite item in the shop is the Hay strap mirror. Been peeking on one for my bathroom.
Love from Sweden! xoxo
Fantastic give away, thank you Jennifer :) My favourite from Nest would be the Hay Copenhague Table with Slanted Legs :) Hope I win, I never seem to get lucky with competitions or give aways ;) -- Flor | Nordic DaysReplyDelete
- SophiaMarch 04, 2014
The Race Furniture Antelope Bench is so cute, it has my name written all over it!ReplyDelete
It's hard to choose but I'm looking at things we need, and the floor lamp version of this Muuto leaf lamp seems perfect. We do actually also need an actual desk lamp, my boyfriend's is dying a slow death and Muuto would be better than Ikea. :DReplyDelete
I did subscribe to their newsletter (why haven't I done that before??) and I look forward to the day I have some extra money to spend and buy something there! It's hard when you can just look :)
Thanks for doing this!
My favorite product on Nest would have to be the Gubi "Gräshoppa" floor lamp. Much like the Muuto lamp it has clean lines and a very minimal design which makes my heart beat a little extra fast.
Both would look amazing in my room and I hope I'm lucky enough to own them both one day. ( Woah this was the hardest decision I've made today)
In love with The DSW Plastic Side Chair iconic design from Charles and Ray Eames.ReplyDelete
Hay DLM Side Table - just love itReplyDelete
Love this horse floor lamp so much! http://www.nest.co.uk/search/moooi-horse-floor-lampReplyDelete
I spent ages on the site trying to decide! Too many lovely things! :)ReplyDelete
After much consideration I have ended with one favourite and it has to be the Hay Mags Modular sofa as I'm after a new sofa at the moment. :)
If only I had Schönbuch Collect Desk in my room!ReplyDelete
I love this: http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/lighting/desk-lights/flos-archimoon-k-table-lamp-with-baseReplyDelete
I love all their merchandise, however, I've been wanting a string shelf for a while now. White on white of course.ReplyDelete
- karmenMarch 04, 2014
My favorite is the Fredericia Haiku Three Seater sofa. I've never seen a sofa like this before and it's awesome!ReplyDelete
Oh my, so many beautiful chairs to choose from! But I really love the Knoll Wassily Lounge Chair. I know, a classic.ReplyDelete
I'm loving the Muuto Elevated Vase.ReplyDelete
I'm saving money for the String Shelving System and that is my favourite piece at the moment.ReplyDelete
By the way: The leaf lamp would fit very well into my muuto stacked shelving system ;)
I'm in love with Tom Dixon's brass pendant lights (and basically everything else on their website).ReplyDelete
- Veronica EMarch 04, 2014
My favourite is actually the leaf lamp from Muuto and has been for some while! Hope for some luck in the competition. :)ReplyDelete
I absolutely love EVERYthing Muuto has to offer, btu I am especially obsessed with the Staffan Holm Split Table.ReplyDelete
I like the Northern Lighting Moo Wall light, it's quite uniqueReplyDelete
Live the Leila table! ThanksReplyDelete
I can't stop eyeing the Tom Dixon Copper Shade Light! It's too nice.ReplyDelete
Indeed choosing just one item is a very hard thing - I'd love to own the Florence Knoll Two Seater Sofa in grey!ReplyDelete
The Poltrona Frau GranTorino Swivel Armchair is just amazing!ReplyDelete
I love the Ferm Living Remix Yellow Silk Cushion! Gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Love everything. Don't make me choose my favorite thing. All of it! Ok, maybe the Atelier Areti Marguerite Pendant Light....and the rest of the store...ReplyDelete
Ooh, love love love the Tom Dixon Copper Shade Light - gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Too many beautiful things.. but I do really love the Fredericia 2209 Three Seater Sofa in almond leather :)ReplyDelete
Obsessed with the E15 SB06 Hirado Sideboard. Sleek and clean.ReplyDelete
- Lisa HMarch 04, 2014
Moroso Gentry 2 Seater Sofa - very inviting!ReplyDelete
Such a beautiful sleek lamp.ReplyDelete
I'm crazy about chairs so my pick is the Knoll Womb Chair in gray, it loos so cozy and comfy perfect for reading a story with my boy or just relaxing.
Thank you for the opportunity! xo
I'm obsessed with almost every single Hay thing.ReplyDelete
One of my favorites is: Menu Gridy Me MirrorReplyDelete
I have loved this lamp and definitely had my eye on it for awhile - I'm definitely crossing my fingers! :-)ReplyDelete
It's so hard to choose my favourites, but another thing I'm "saving up for" (okay, when I get a proper job or win the lottery) is definitely the floor lamp "Northern Lighting Diva Floor Lamp by Peter Natedal and Thomas Kalvatn Egset". It's just so quirky and wonderful!
My favourite piece is the Gärsnäs Orbit Floor Lamp http://www.nest.co.uk/whats-new/garsnas-orbit-floor-lampReplyDelete
- Dee SpyMarch 04, 2014
oh! I've been looking for the perfect lamp for my desk. this would be so lovely to win :)ReplyDelete
as for my favorite piece... my internet is too slow to scroll through it all, but i've been coveting the eames hang it all for as long as i've known about it, so i'll stick with that for now. (if i get some better internet, i may just change my answer)
I have been in love with Wegners J16 rocking chair since I was ten. Soon I turn 40 and I plan to finally make my wish come true when I move in to my new home in April.ReplyDelete
practical lampReplyDelete
Lightyears Volume Table Lamp in grey is the ONE!ReplyDelete
wow! I'm in love with Schönbuch Collect Desk....can't decide which color. but there is still time to dream, I guessReplyDelete
The Normann Copenhagen Brick Cushion is cool would update any room!ReplyDelete
I have a terrible cold at the moment, so I'd love to cuddle in Knoll's Womb chair for a day or two. Wonderful giveaway! Best regards from Europe :)ReplyDelete
I just love this chair http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/sofas/armchairs/sancal-party-armchairReplyDelete
I love this lamp...I'm needing a complete set of dining chairs and would love the Hay J77 chairs.ReplyDelete
love this
What a cool giveaway, especially since I need a new lamp for my desk.ReplyDelete
Anyway, choosing one item from the store proved to be a challenge, but this &Tradition FLY Armchair SC1 would be my favorite for now. I can imagine it in our living room or office already.
No muuuum, I told you a million times, I don't need a bed, I can sleep very well in my Eames Lounge Chair!!!ReplyDelete
I have been browsing and browsing, and I could spend the entire day at their site and pin everything they have! But I saw the Isokon Plus Penguin Donkey bookcase and I felt in love! :)ReplyDelete
Thank you! I really like the Casamania Chariot Mobile Table (:ReplyDelete
I really love the giveaway and the Cassina 260 Reef Two Seater Sofa in the Nest storeReplyDelete
Wow! What an incredible nice giveaway!! It would look so nice on my desk.ReplyDelete
I am dreaming of the Knoll Bertoia Outdoor Side Chair..
I looooved the Ercol Love Seat on the Nest!!!! Great giveaway, thanks!!!ReplyDelete
polar bear book shelfReplyDelete
My favorite item is the Menu towel ladder, because of its very thin but strong structure. It is a very simple but beautiful object, that make you want to use it in every room!ReplyDelete
&Tradition Mayor Sofa!! I've been eyeing this sucker for a while now!!ReplyDelete
What a lovely giveaway! My alltime favorite design classic is the Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table.ReplyDelete
I would loe a pair of Northern Lighting Sunday Wall Light for our bedroom.ReplyDelete
hmmmmm... a dificult task you gave us there huh ?!ReplyDelete
I am usually well into colours but this "Casamania Him&Her" chair is soooo sexy and beautiful and everything :D
My favourite really is the muuto leaf lamp! it would look so gorgeous in my Scandinavian inspired office in Australia!ReplyDelete
Atelier Areti Three Cones Floor LightReplyDelete
It was very hard to choose just one piece of all the huge collection of amazing pieces that Nest has! But I chose a piece of which I have been in love for a couple of time, it is &Tradition FLY Lounge Table SC4 (http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/coffee-tables/-/tradition-fly-lounge-table-sc4)ReplyDelete
Why I choosed this piece among other beauties? Because the design of this table reunite modern scandinavian design and tradition at the same time, the result: a piece that never ages, with beautiful and simple lines. It is minimalism reinterpreted.
I would like to win the muuto Leaf Lamp, it is minimalistic, organic elegant and simple. The perfect addition to (in production process) my little office, that right now I am trying to organize at my home with just a few quality pieces. I can assure you, I would appreciate it very much if I win.
I am a big fan of the Cassina 191 Moov Sofa but since my boyfriend and I live in a small apartment the sofa would never fit. So all we really want right now is actually the leaf lamp. We talked about it yesterday so this competition came with perfect timing :)ReplyDelete
The Hay DLM side table or the About a Chair AAC23 have my name on them.ReplyDelete
the Muuto Connect Two Seater Sofa in pastel pink would just be perfect for my living room. as well as the leaf lamp of course!ReplyDelete
- mareeMarch 04, 2014
So hard to choose just one thing - this site is chair heaven! My favourite would have to be the Carl Hansen CH24 Wishbone chair.ReplyDelete
i love that normann copenhagen toj clothes rack! a beautiful, simple piece. thanks!ReplyDelete
I really like the 'cover' chair in oak. So simple and perfect for our homemade dining table. The leaf lamp would be a wonderful gift for my husband, his desk lamp has recently (sadly) stopped working, an adorable danish thing from the 60's. Thank you!ReplyDelete
- victoriaMarch 04, 2014
hay mags modular sofa would look amazing in my living roomReplyDelete
I think my favorite is the new &Tradition Copenhagen pendant (the biggest one). I love its matte finish. Thanks for the nice giveaway, Jennifer & Nest!ReplyDelete
You have some seriously fabulous stuff and thanks for the comp as I would not have heard of you otherwise.I will choose the arcitecht design birdy lamp but would love to buy anything for my daughters new home.thanksReplyDelete
I'm crazy about the little colorful creatures aka the BD Barcelona Design Showtime Vases.ReplyDelete
Wow, so many great pieces to choose from! I'm smitten with the Moroso Lowland bed - a bed and seating all in one? Smart!ReplyDelete
Pretty much love everything on the website, but right now I am looking at quirky bathroom storage and I love this!ReplyDelete
So I pretty much love everything on the site but I am looking at bathroom storage right now and this caught my eyeReplyDelete
The Cherner bar stool...and the Grubi grasshopper lampReplyDelete
my first favourite (so many!) is the ibride ambroise the courtier tray :)ReplyDelete
Oh yes, that was hard! But I`m a huge fan of Onecollection Finn Juhl Poet Sofa, love it in grey.ReplyDelete
Absolutely loving the giveaway! Coincidentally, I am currently looking for a lamp for my desk. After a very long look I have chosen the 'Artek 403 Hallway Armchair' - I love how it seems so organic in the white lacquer.
Thank you so much for the giveaway ♥
oh I just love this pendant:http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/lighting/-/atelier-areti-kaline-pendant-lightReplyDelete
thank you!
So hard to pick... but I chose the &Tradition Mayor sofa in smoked oak & pink.ReplyDelete
This is probably a common choice, but I have always wanted an Eames chair, specifically this one: Vitra DSW Eames Plastic Side Chair! Thanks for the giveaway :)ReplyDelete
Just now we are redoing my girls room and this shelf would be perfect http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/bookcases/-/kristalia-shellf. Have a Nice week, KathReplyDelete
THIS RUG. what. how.ReplyDelete
Definetly this sofa, because I'm in desperate need of a new one!ReplyDelete
So not a fair question - I LOVE modern design/furniture and it is next to impossible for me to narrow it down to just ONE! At the top of my list is probably the arco floor lamp, but I have a designer chair fetish so the ghost, wishbone, bertoia and spolito chairs are all calling my name, too!ReplyDelete
I will, and have always been absolutely in love with the Vitra LCW Eames Plywood Chair!ReplyDelete
As much as I love our current dining table, we are in desperate need of a bigger one. Copenhague Table by Hay would be ideal item to replace the old and loved one.ReplyDelete
If i don't win the Muuto, i want to buy this lamp: http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/lighting/desk-lights/gubi-cobra-table-lampReplyDelete
Hard to pick out a favorite... hmmmm.... Flos AIM suspension light <3ReplyDelete
Love Nest! Great giveaway.ReplyDelete
My favourite piece would be the Normann Copenhagen Kabino Sideboard, white or grey, perfect size and style. Would be ideal extra storage :)
Very hard to pick a favourite! I have loved the Menu chunk of marble candle holders for a while now, I would have to say those.ReplyDelete
Killing my darlings over here ...ReplyDelete
But I've been crushing on the 'about a chair' by Hay for a long time. Now that we have recently bought a house, they would just be the perfect match for the new dining room space
So many dining tables to love: the Zaotta raw is my favourite.ReplyDelete
The Tom Dixon Bronze Shade is KILLLLLING me with it's beauty.ReplyDelete
danke sehr! ich find den blog einfach klasseReplyDelete
THIS RULES! http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/childrens-accessories/-/architectmade-strit-figureReplyDelete
Thanks for this great giveaway, I'm so in love with this lamp!ReplyDelete
I had a nice time browing the website, and I would choose the Knoll BarberOsgerby Asymmetric Sofa
It looks so stylish and comfy!
So difficult!!! i will have to choose the &traditton copenhagen sc6 pendant light, and all ready had suscribe to the newsletter. Hope a minimal Mexican girl living in Costa Rica wins!!!!!ReplyDelete
My all time favorite is Arne Jacobsen egg-chair, love it and hope I will some day own it too <3ReplyDelete
Wow, love that lamp!ReplyDelete
Also absolutely love the Gubi Paradiset Sofa at Nest. Very fancy!
Nemo Cassina Applique a Volet Pivotant Wall Light - I love it!ReplyDelete
my fave is the Poltrona Frau Kennedee two seater sofaReplyDelete
Love it all, but this table is killing me: http://www.nest.co.uk/selections/guest-edit-a-merry-mishap/tradition-fly-lounge-table-sc4ReplyDelete
I love this lamp: Wästberg Sempé w103c Desk LampReplyDelete
It reminds me of a mushroom! :-)
Ahhh....indeed it was difficult picking just one!!!ReplyDelete
So 'quirk' won out in the end ─ hello http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/chairs/-/casamania-him-chair
Definitely a squeal-&-swoon moment!
Very difficult picking just one....but the Gubi Gräshoppa Task Table Lamp has been on my wish list for a long time....ReplyDelete
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- Christina BrownMarch 05, 2014
The Atelier Areti Kirchschlag Pendant Light is especially gorgeous :)ReplyDelete
Spent too long trying to pick one, but I'll go with the Fredericia J16 Rocking Chair!ReplyDelete
&Tradition Mayor Sofa - White Oiled Oak !!!ReplyDelete
Zanotta Outdoor Club Armchair :)ReplyDelete
Lisa A
So difficult picking one! G&T by Bethan Gray Carve Coffee Table Round.ReplyDelete
I guess my love for the Leaf lamp is quite well known by now!ReplyDelete
I love it in both its variations and I am very tempted to say this is my favourite object among the beautiful Nest collection. But I will actually choose the Muuto Visu Lounge Chair: still in the Muuto family but exactly what I'd love to add in our bedroom for the reading corner. It would be fit perfectly our all-white space and add some unexpected touch to the room. Plus, this piece could be easily moved into the studio for late night chatting while my husband is studying. The good thing of our home is it will be visible to my devoted eyes the whole day long!
I am going to have to go with Hay colour carpet 05 as it has been on the wishlist for quite some time! It would go perfectly in the nursery we are putting together, for a cosy feel :)ReplyDelete
So hard to choose, but I really love this desk: http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/desks/-/finn-juhl-nyhavn-table-tray-unitReplyDelete
The discipline re-turned sparrow is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
So much to choose from! I go for what I would actually need so I pick HAY Colour Carpet 05!ReplyDelete
It is absolute torture to pick one favorite from that store but the NORMAN COPENHAGEN ONKEL THREE SEATER SOFA cannot be beat. Perfect shape, very pleasing to the eyes – KILLER SOFA!!ReplyDelete
...and I can't press on how much I am excited for this leaf lamp, I have been drooling over it for so long and it is so practical and unfussy!!! ..I'd be a proud owner :)
- AnonymousMarch 06, 2014
I'm totally in love with Kaiser Idell Luxus table lamp!ReplyDelete
I really like the Benjamin Hubert Chimney Light Wide. Thanks for showing me this site!ReplyDelete
Junior Small Polar Bear Bookshelf.ReplyDelete
fab site, fab competition, tough choice but I would choose the Santa & Cole Cesta Table LampReplyDelete
I love the Zeitraum Plaisir Occasional Table so much!ReplyDelete
Love the polar bear bookshelf !!ReplyDelete
I'd pick everything and the Normann Copenhagen One Step Up Bookcase! Thanks for recommending the site!ReplyDelete
Love the http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/lounge-chairs/arm-chairs/adelta-pastil-chairReplyDelete
So much lovely items, but maybe I just choose Punt Jo Stool, it's simple and pretty. tanjamorte (a) gmail.comReplyDelete
I need a new sofa, so http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/sofas/four-seater-sofas/muuto-connect-modular-sofaReplyDelete
- Magdalena LindstedtMarch 07, 2014
So glad I am reading your blog - if not, I wouldn't have found this site! So much wonderful stuff, really hard to just pick one. But now when I have to, I would say the Wishbone chair by Hans Wegner is my favorite! Second would be the muuto leaf lamp ;)ReplyDelete
I would love this lamp for my desk.ReplyDelete
Ooh, choosing is so hard! I'd probably have to go for the Vitra Eames Hang It All though :P Thanks for the giveaway :)ReplyDelete
I would choose Artek A440 Pendant Lamp.ReplyDelete
I would like a ibride Ambroise The Courtier TrayReplyDelete
My favourite piece is the Glas Italia Bent Glass Table by Naoto Fukasawa. I have been searching for a glass coffee table for a while that itself would be cool, modern and beautiful, while emphasizing my carpet with patterns. Now I have found it! Thank's! :) Together with the Muuto leaf lamp the look in my living room would be complete. So now I hope I am the lucky one to win this fabulous price. :)ReplyDelete
Kind regards from me!
How could you not break into smile by just looking at the Atelier Areti Sunrise lamp! The perfect antidote for a bluesy room :)ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for the giveaway! My favourite product at the moment is the artek A110 pendant.ReplyDelete
I absolutely love this candelabra and think it would look amazing in one my non-functioning NYC decorative fireplace: http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/candelabras-candlesticks/-/tom-dixon-spin-table-candelabraReplyDelete
Thanks much for posting!
I love this comfy chair http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/brand/cassina/cassina-auckland-armchair-with-headrestReplyDelete
- TanjaMarch 07, 2014
I like Hans ChairReplyDelete
The Hay Strap Mirror is great :) Just stumbled over it, didn't know they had one and a cheaper alternative to the Gubi one!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 08, 2014
Thank you for this perfect giveaway !ReplyDelete
I prefer this one Punt Jo Stool !
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The Flos Toio Floor Lamp has been on my wish list for as long as I can remember. The Nest lighting collection is amazing!ReplyDelete
Ooooh, I'll take 6 of the Arper Aava chairs to go with the Carl Hansen table which will stand below the Tom Dixon pendant lamp. Ah, dream house..........sigh.ReplyDelete
Fantastic giveaway!
thanks for the offer. I just got a beautiful spacious cabin in the woods. the Hay Mags Modular Sofa in teal wool would be the perfect sturdy piece to cosy up on around the fire as it pours outside. but that lovely modern lamp would do nicely in the office as well.ReplyDelete
I love The Punt Dot SideboardReplyDelete
Flos floor lamp ALL the way! We specified one on a client project at work and I've been super envious ever since.ReplyDelete
I love the flos 265 :)ReplyDelete
this is lovely http://www.nest.co.uk/browse/product-type/beds/-/e15-pardis-bedReplyDelete
I'm in love with thisReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 08, 2014
The Knoll Barcelona Day Bed from Mies v. d. Rohe is my fave. :-)ReplyDelete
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It's still early 2013, and advisors around the country are doubtlessly still talking about 2012 investment performance with their clients. A big part of those discussions will be around individual portfolio manager results. It's great, of course, when a manager meets or beats expectations. Conversations about those kinds of results are fairly straightforward. But experience tells us that a manager or two will have disappointed. In those instances, advisors are on the spot to explain why. Quantifying results is the nature of our business, and we suggest that advisors need to look to attribution to manage this important point of discussion with clients.
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When it comes to equity portfolios, it's easy enough to compare results to indexes like the Russell 1000 or the MSCI EAFE. Typically, performance is analyzed versus a benchmark by running an attribution report that looks at stocks within different sectors. Below is an example of an attribution table that explains why a small-cap investment manager underperformed the Russell 2000 Index for the 2012 calendar year.
This type of attribution is a quick way to help tell the portfolio's performance story. In a nutshell, the two columns towards the right—"Sector Weighting" and "Selection"—explain the bulk of the performance difference: Sector Weighting added 1.04% to total performance while Selection, primarily in the Consumer Discretionary sector, detracted 3.22%. In this example, the 'story,' then, would read something like this: "In 2012, weak stock selection, particularly among Consumer Discretionary issues, accounted for most of the portfolio's underperformance versus its benchmark."
…and Then There Are Numbers…
This kind of useful analysis is accurate as far as it goes, but the stock selection story may not go far enough. The fact is that portfolios have many different factors within them—lquality, volatility, market capitalization, style and so on—that result from their manager's investment approach. As such, it's useful to look at the impact that these factors had on performance.
Below, for example, is an attribution analysis for the same equity strategy for the same time period, this time looking at the 'size' factor:
This analysis shows that the strategy's market cap weightings detracted 3.72% from its relative performance for the year, which overshadows the impact of stock selection. Indeed, this manager has a relatively high number of microcap stocks, and the portfolio's overweight toward stocks in the smallest quintile detracted 2.46% from performance. With this report, an advisor can quickly and accurately tell investors that the portfolio's bias towards microcap stocks is the main reason it did not keep up with its benchmark.
Other managers, meanwhile, like to invest in what are considered to be high-quality stocks, the resulting portfolios of which tend to lag their benchmarks during sharp market rallies. Advisors, as a result, have an opportunity to proactively explain this tendency to their clients. More than that, the advisor can put it all into numbers by running a return on equity attribution showing how the high-quality factor impacted performance over time.
Similarly, the volatility of a portfolio, usually measured by beta, can affect relative performance. Low-beta portfolios, for example, tend to underperform during sharp market rallies. Usually comprising high-quality companies with sustainable competitive advantages and lower levels of debt, these portfolios are typically out of favor in market rallies that prefer lower quality and higher-beta postures.
They All Add Up to the Story
In the end, an investment in an actively-managed portfolio of stocks is, intentionally or not, more than just buying a collection of publicly traded companies. The investment is actually in a collection of different factors that will perform better or worse in different market environments; that is why the phrase "stock selection" can be misleading. In practice, many traditional long-only portfolio managers hold stocks for several years, so analyzing and explaining which stocks they 'selected' each quarter can give the wrong impression.
Since stock selection and sector exposures by themselves don't provide an entirely valid basis for judging managers and portfolio performance over time, it's necessary to consider a variety of other factors, particularly those related to the manager's investment strategy and the current market environment. Having a grip on the factors within portfolios is almost always a more efficient manner to evaluate performance behavior and explain past results. Said another way, running attributions on these different factors is a useful way to put actual numbers to the story.
Author's disclaimer: For investment professional use only. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The opinions expressed herein reflect our judgment as of the date of writing and are subject to change at any time without notice. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation. Investment decisions should always be made based on the investor's specific financial needs and objectives, goals, time horizon, and risk tolerance. Information obtained from third party resources are believed to be reliable but not guaranteed. Any mention of a specific security is for illustrative purposes only and is not intended as a recommendation or advice regarding the specific security mentioned. Diversification does not guarantee a profit or guarantee protection against losses.


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Governor Mary Fallin Signs into Law Infrastructure Improvement Plan
Bill Will Help Address Needs at Capitol, Maintain other State Assets
OKLAHOMA CITY – Governor Mary Fallin today signed into law House Bill 1910, a bill that creates a long-term plan to maintain state assets. The bill, by House Speaker T.W. Shannon and Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman, forms the Long-Range Capital Planning Commission. The commission will first address the repair of the state Capitol, and later develop an eight-year plan to address other infrastructure, repair and maintenance issues. The commission also will provide recommendations on reallocation, reuse or liquidation of state properties.
"It's important we maintain and improve state assets, rather than watching them deteriorate," Fallin said. "House Bill 1910 puts us on a path to ensure state infrastructure and buildings like the Oklahoma Capitol are well-maintained and cared for. My thanks go out to the Oklahoma Legislature for working with me to develop a plan to address the state's many infrastructure needs."
Shannon, R-Lawton, said, "The signing of this bill shows this legislature's commitment to becoming better stewards of the people's buildings and the taxpayers' money. Oklahoma now has a process in which responsible decisions can be made on repair and maintenance issues without taking on unnecessary debt which will burden future generations of Oklahomans. Oklahoma has a chance to prove to the country that conservative values lead to prosperity. If we are to succeed, we must show that we as lawmakers value the very infrastructure we have asked the people to invest in."
Bingman, R-Sapulpa, said, "The people of Oklahoma are the owners of buildings like the state Capitol, and they simply deserve better than an endless carousel of deterioration and depreciation. We can no longer wait to begin critical repairs to the state Capitol and other public assets in need of immediate rehabilitation. This Eight-Year Plan is a conservative, methodical approach to responsibly maintain these buildings and ensure the people of Oklahoma see a return on the investment they've made. Speaker Shannon and Governor Fallin have both made these repairs a top priority, and I appreciate their commitment to address such a pressing need."


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From the outset, behavioral finance has focused on documenting the irrational financial behavior of human beings, and even today, says Daniel Crosby, founder and president of Atlanta-based behavioral finance consulting firm, IncBlot, the science is still largely centered on highlighting the mistakes people make with respect to financial planning.
Crosby believes that people—financial advisors and the general investing public—have begun to tire of the seemingly endless litany of flaws ("I have counted 117 well-documented irrationalities or behavioral biases," he said.) that behavioral finance has highlighted and are ready for something else.
"We're at a point where behavioral finance needs to go in a new direction, one that answers the questions 'so what' and 'now what,'" he said.
Crosby set up IncBlot to try to answer those questions and to be a part of what he believes is the important and necessary transition of behavioral finance from theory to practice—a change that will allow financial practitioners to use the science in a more meaningful, useful and realistic manner.
He firmly believes that behavioral finance needs to stop uncovering new ways in which human behavior can spoil proper and logical financial planning, and instead focus on whittling the already existent body of knowledge down to a decent and workable universe that will enable greater practicality.
"Today, we know that there are 117 ways to mess things up, and that's all fine, but what are the two or three big pillars that account for the majority of these biases?" he asked. "Winnowing that knowledge down to […] a manageable universe of the ways in which we make mistakes will make it that much easier for everyone, particularly for financial advisors, who'll find it easier to incorporate behavioral finance at every step of the investing process," he said.
More importantly, though, Crosby believes that behavioral finance must seek to cast both investing and investors in a more positive light than it has done up to now, and that the science needs to evolve in such a way so that it highlights the more positive aspects of human financial behavior.
"Over the last 15 to 20 years, we've seen a movement in clinical psychology to study positive psychology, and that's what we need in behavioral finance," he said. "We have to speak to the other side of the coin, as it were, to make investors aware of the good things that they do and to draw attention to the positive hallmarks of investor performance."
To make sure that that happens effectively, advisors should get clients to focus entirely on themselves and their lifetime goals in order to simplify the investment process. Advisors need to help their clients set up personal benchmarks and focus only on them; only then will they be able to help them both exhibit and feel encouraged by the more positive aspects of their investment behavior.
"There are thousands of pieces of economic data out there, and what happens is that people focus on those and how they are likely to impact their financial performance," Crosby said. "People worry about the performance of the Cypriot economy, to give a recent example, but the reality is that the performance of the Cypriot economy is really not that germane to their lives or to their situation."
When investors react to a large, external event like a downturn of the economy of Cyprus, they will definitely exhibit the negative behaviors chronicled by behavioral finance, but if advisors can get their clients to look instead at the benchmarks they have set up to accomplish in their own personal financial agenda—sending a child to college, for example—then they will be able to get them to see positive financial behavior that will ultimately encourage them more for the future, Crosby said.
"We know that people will be loss averse, for example, because behavioral finance has documented this very well. It is not enough for an advisor to tell their clients that they are loss averse because this is like saying 'stop eating cookies' without offering any alternative," he said.
Crosby is currently working with several advisory firms to come up with programs that will help their clients focus on working toward and achieving personal benchmarks in order to highlight more positive behavioral tendencies that will ultimately help them be better investors.


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Effective October 1, 2003 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued Management Directive (MD)-715. This directive provides policy guidance and standards for establishing and maintaining an effective affirmative program of EEO under section 7171 of Title VII and Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
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The ability to buy and sell funds without paying any brokerage commissions is one of the biggest trends in the booming ETF marketplace.
Not only is it drastically reducing the cost of ETF investing, but it's directly influencing ETF asset flows.
Let's look at some of the biggest and boldest players in this rapid evolving space:
Charles Schwab
In February, the San Francisco-based broker expanded its list of commission-free ETFs to a total of 105 ETFs by launching its Schwab ETF OneSource platform.
The company's ETF list covers major asset classes, with fund families like State Street SPDR ETFs, Guggenheim Investments, PowerShares, ETF Securities, United States Commodity Funds, and Charles Schwab ETFs.
"Just as Schwab Mutual Fund OneSource changed the landscape for investors and advisors by providing convenient, affordable access to leading mutual funds when Chuck Schwab introduced it 20 years ago, we believe Schwab ETF OneSource will deliver enormous benefit and change the way our clients buy and sell ETFs," said Walt Bettinger, CEO of Charles Schwab (SCHW), in a statement.
Non-Schwab ETFs added to the company's commission-free trading platform include the Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (RSP), PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF (SPLV), Guggenheim BRIC ETF (EEB) and the ETFS Physical Precious Metals Basket Shares (GLTR).
TD Ameritrade
If you want one access to one of the broadest lists of commission-free ETFs, TD Ameritrade (AMTD) is a good place to start. The brokerage firm offers up 100-plus ETFs on its list.
The broker has commission free trades on 47 iShares, 32 Vanguard ETFs and 12 State Street Global (SPDR) ETFs. While you won't find huge-volume ETFs like the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) on the list, you'll still get a great choice in lesser-known funds covering important asset classes, like international TIPS (WIP), international real estate (RWX), and international small-cap stocks (VSS).
Another big plus to TD's ETF platform is commission-free trades on commodity linked ETPs. Investments like the PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Trust (DBC) and PowerShares DB Oil Trust (DBO) add diversification to a mostly bond and stock ETF lineup.
Customers of Fidelity Brokerage Services can buy and sell 30 iShares ETFs without incurring any transaction fee. The funds cover a broad swath of investment categories, like domestic and international stocks, along with fixed income.
Among the ETFs included on Fidelity's commission-free list are the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD), the iShares MSCI EAFE (EFA), iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend (DVY) and iShares JP Morgan USD Emerging Markets (EMB). Unfortunately, no commodity ETFs are included, and the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate (IYR) is the only sector fund on the commission-free list.
Fidelity's Nasdaq Composite Index Tracking Stock (ONEQ), which tracks the Nasdaq Composite Index, is also eligible for commission-free trades. Most online ETF trades placed at Fidelity Brokerage Services have a $7.95 commission.
Vanguard brokerage clients can make commission-free trades on the company's entire lineup of Vanguard ETFs. This includes core portfolio funds like the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI), Vanguard Total Market Market ETF (BND) and the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO).
Most Vanguard brokerage clients pay $2 or $7 to trade stocks and non-Vanguard ETFs, depending on the size of their investment account. For example, a $750,000 account, dubbed Voyager Select Services, gets charged $2 per trade on stocks and non-Vanguard ETFs.
"For 35 years, Vanguard has been committed to reducing the cost of investing in mutual funds for our clients. Now, Vanguard is expanding our low-cost commitment to ETFs," said CEO Bill McNabb, in a statement. "Importantly, Vanguard offers a greater choice of ETFs with expense ratios that are among the lowest in the industry."
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- 6 small Portobello mushrooms (you can use big ones)
- 1/2 cup Quinoa (soaked and but not drained for 15 minutes before cooking)
- Yellow Squash cut into small pieces
- Carrot, peeled and cut into small pieces
- 1/4 of an onion, chopped into small pieces
- nutritional yeast
- salt, garlic powder and pepper
- lettuce, washed and places nicely around the plate
- tomato, sliced
- garlic and onion chives, basil
- sprouts
*directions to cook Quinoa perfectly:
you may rinse quinoa first, but I not.
1/2 cup Quinoa, soaked, not drained (soak in 1 1/4 cup of water)
add salt to the quinoa water when ready to cook
To Cook: start boiling the soaked quinoa in its original water. Once at a boil, cover and turn down to low and cook for 15 minutes. take of the stove and wait for at least 5 minutes… then, lift lid and fluff.. the quinoa should have opaque tail.
set aside quinoa
Directions after cooking Quinoa:
wash mushrooms and take out the steam and clean out the center
chop all your vegetables (onion, carrot, squash) and add the quinoa
sprinkle garlic powder, nutritional yeast, pepper and salt also, add chopped finely garlic and onion chives into the mixture and mix.
Stuff the mushroom with the mixture stuffing without breaking the mushrooms
oil the backing dish and preheat the oven to 325-350
place the stuffed mushrooms in the baking dish and cover with foil.
once oven is hot, bake for 2–25 minutes.
in the meantime, place lettuce, basil, tomato and sprouts on the dinner plates…
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A maternal nag familiar to the ears of many young gamers usually follows the lines of "you're wasting your life in front of a console." Browbeaten controller wielders rejoice—a new study from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) has proven the superior hand-eye coordination skills honed from hours of joystick-based gaming are the same talents required to master the world's most advanced robotic surgery tools.
The study sought to identify the developmental effect video games have on training future surgeons. "A new era has started," explained Sami Kilic, lead author of the study and associate professor and director of minimally invasive gynecology at UTMB. Kilic was inspired to conduct the study after seeing his son easily take control of a robotic surgery simulator at a medical convention. "Robotic surgery has been implemented in the medical field recently—most of the physicians were not trained for it. We had to come up with an idea of how to train our trainers."
A group of physicians studying at UTMB—a world leader in robotic surgery—was put up against US high school and college students in a series of robotic surgery simulation tests. The study measured participants on 20 different skills, including how steady their grasping abilities were when performing surgical tasks such as passing a needle or lifting surgical instruments. There were 32 different teaching steps required to operate the robotic surgery simulator—a training tool with dual hand-operated controllers. Real-time surgical movements are displayed on its video monitor.
The surgical skills of the high school students (who played video games an average of two hours a day) and the college students (some of whom spent four hours a day gaming) were found to be equal to the UTMB physicians—and in some cases, even exceeded the skills of the residents. The UTMB physicians were able to save face when the same test groups were asked to perform non-robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery, the physicians unsurprisingly coming out on top.
"Most physicians in practice today never learned robotic surgery in medical school," said Kilic. "However, as we see students with enhanced visual-spatial experience and hand-eye coordination that are a result of the technologically-savvy world they are immersed in, we should rethink how best to teach this generation."
The study noted the additional two hours the college students spent gaming when compared with the high school students didn't seem to provide them with any additional advantage when using the robotic surgery simulator. This led Kilic to observe that two hours might be the optimal time spent at the controls of the robot simulator. While young gamers might now rightfully claim that time spent at the controller is building useful (robotic surgery related) skills, the argument runs dry beyond the two-hour mark.
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Last week, Stan Kelly-Bootle shuffled off this mortal coil. For younger programmers, this event will likely have little immediate significance and not elicit any sentiment of commemoration. But for readers who remember a different era of prose in computing, his passing will mark the confirmation of a transition from thoughtful, witty, long-form prose in the world of software development. Today, in programming, there are few if any voices that blend humor, wit, and deep learning. Things were not always this way. In the 1990s, Kelly-Bootle wrote a truly extraordinary column, called Devil's Advocate, that ran in UNIX Review and was read by essentially all cognoscenti of the era. (It went on to be published less frequently in ACM Queue magazine during the first decade of the 2000s.)
Devil's Advocate was known for clever and frequently very subtle word play that expressed sharp insights into the industry supported by a profoundly learned presentation that drew from an almost inexhaustible library of obscure references, all carefully researched (and much of it long before the Web made such searching easy). I have included a long example at the end of this missive, which starts with Kelly-Bootle speculating on the proper pronunciation of FAQ, segueing into the problem that recursion presents when used in acronyms, ending up with a serious, insightful riposte to the use of dictionaries as a tool of Holocaust deniers that links back to recursion and, indeed, FAQs.
At the time, the Holocaust discussion (which I've abridged below) drew written comments from Bertrand Meyer, who like Kelly-Bootle suffered in Europe during World War II. Such was the audience and the respect Stan enjoyed. No one in technology today covers in one column such a wide range of topics. There is an impatience in the present that precludes spending a full 20 minutes reading a column and being forced to think about what the author is saying and how. We are too easily distrac…
Stan first came to my attention in a brilliant skewer of Microsoft's promotion of its then-new "Optimizing C Compiler." At launch time, Microsoft made a big fuss about how well the compiler optimized the code of the popular benchmarks of the day, one of which was a simple integer loop that just counted from 1 to 1 million. In the ads, the Microsoft compiler's time on this task was a rather astonishing 0.00 ms. The number was accompanied by an asterisk. In the footnote, it was explained that the compiler detected that the result of the loop was never used, so it simply stripped the loop away. Kelly-Bootle jumped on this and accurately pointed out that the one and only reason a developer would write such a loop was to create a delay in program execution. Consequently, optimizing the loop away was precisely the opposite of the programmer's intended action. Whereupon, he rechristened the compiler, "Microsoft's Pessimizing Compiler," a term he used for years.
Before I provide the excerpt from one of any of hundreds of his columns I could have chosen, let me just add that Kelly-Bootle wrote books on language (that is, both spoken languages and, separately, computer languages), composed many songs (one of which was recorded by Judy Collins), and was known to all his friends and colleagues as a member of the very first graduating class anywhere to receive degrees in computer science (from Cambridge): "Computers were simpler then. We had only 0's. We'd read papers discussing computers with 1's and 0's, which opened our eyes and made us yearn. We prayed for 1's to come to [Cambridge]. Finally, we got them and everything was greatly changed. Still, computing with just 0's was an awful lot easier."


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NOTES from the UNDERGROUND… No. 146 | July 12, 2008
It's the birthday of Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts (1817). He's the author of Walden; or, Life in the Woods(1854) and the essay "Civil Disobedience" (1849). He went off to Harvard when he was just 16. He was 27 when he built a small cabin on the edge of Walden Pond, a small lake near Concord, and wrote about his time there. Thoreau said, "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." [Source: Writer's Almanac]
(excerpt) by Henry David Thoreau
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and
wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil — to
regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather
than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if
so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of
civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of
you will take care of that.
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who
understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks — who had a
genius, so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully
derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the
Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte
Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a
Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to
the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere
idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in
the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the
word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in
the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally
at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering.
He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant
of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than
the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the
shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is
the most probable derivation. For every walk is a sort of crusade,
preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer
this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels.
It is true, we are but faint-hearted crusaders, even the walkers,
nowadays, who undertake no persevering, never-ending enterprises.
Our expeditions are but tours, and come round again at evening to
the old hearthside from which we set out. Half the walk is but
retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk,
perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return,
prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our
desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, and
brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see
them again — if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and
settled all your affairs, and are a free man — then you are ready for
a walk.
We have felt that we almost alone hereabouts practiced this noble
art; though, to tell the truth, at least if their own assertions are to
be received, most of my townsmen would fain walk sometimes, as I
do, but they cannot. No wealth can buy the requisite leisure,
freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession.
It comes only by the grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation
from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family
of the Walkers. Ambulator nascitur, non fit. Some of my
townsmen, it is true, can remember and have described to me some
walks which they took ten years ago, in which they were so blessed
as to lose themselves for half an hour in the woods; but I know
very well that they have confined themselves to the highway ever
since, whatever pretensions they may make to belong to this select
class. No doubt they were elevated for a moment as by the
reminiscence of a previous state of existence, when even they were
foresters and outlaws.
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend
four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than
that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields,
absolutely free from all worldly engagements. You may safely say,
A penny for your thoughts, or a thousand pounds. When sometimes
I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their
shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting
with crossed legs, so many of them — as if the legs were made to
sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon — I think that they deserve
some credit for not having all committed suicide long ago.
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without
acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a
walk at the eleventh hour, or four o'clock in the afternoon, too late
to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning
to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed
some sin to be atoned for — I confess that I am astonished at the
power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of
my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the
whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I
know not what manner of stuff they are of, sitting there now at
three o'clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o'clock in the
morning. Bonaparte may talk of the three-o'clock- in-the-morning
courage, but it is nothing to the courage which can sit down
cheerfully at this hour in the afternoon over against one's self
whom you have known all the morning, to starve out a garrison to
whom you are bound by such strong ties of sympathy. I wonder
that about this time, or say between four and five o'clock in the
afternoon, too late for the morning papers and too early for the
evening ones, there is not a general explosion heard up and down
the street, scattering a legion of antiquated and house-bred notions
and whims to the four winds for an airing — and so the evil cure
But the walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking
exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated
hours — as the Swinging of dumb- bells or chairs; but is itself the
enterprise and adventure of the day. If you would get exercise, go
in search of the springs of life. Think of a man's swinging
dumbbells for his health, when those springs are bubbling up in
far-off pastures unsought by him!
Moreover, you must walk like a camel, which is said to be the only
beast which ruminates when walking. When a traveler asked
Wordsworth's servant to show him her master's study, she
answered, "Here is his library, but his study is out of doors."
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, sage writer and philosopher. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thoreau is sometimes cited as an individualist anarchist as well as an inspiration to anarchists. Though Civil Disobedience calls for improving rather than abolishing government — "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government" — the direction of this improvement aims at anarchism: "'That government is best which governs not at all;' and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."
He was born David Henry Thoreauin Concord, Massachusetts to John Thoreau (a pencil maker) and Cynthia Dunbar. His paternal grandfather was of French origin and was born in Jersey. His maternal grandfather, Asa Dunbar, was known for leading Harvard's 1766 student "Butter Rebellion"the first recorded student protest in the United States. David Henry was named after a recently deceased paternal uncle, David Thoreau. He did not become "Henry David" until after college, although he never petitioned to make a legal name change. He had two older siblings, Helen and John Jr., and a younger sister, Sophia. Thoreau's birthplace still exists on Virginia Road in Concord and is currently the focus of preservation efforts. The house is original, but it now stands about 100 yards away from its first site.
Bronson Alcott and Thoreau's aunt both wrote that "Thoreau" is pronounced like the word "thorough", whose standard American pronunciation rhymes with "furrow". In appearance he was homely, with a nose that he called "my most prominent feature." Of his face, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: "[Thoreau] is as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and rustic, though courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior. But his ugliness is of an honest and agreeable fashion, and becomes him much better than beauty." Thoreau also wore a neck-beard for many years, which he insisted many women found attractive. However, Louisa May Alcott reportedly mentioned to Ralph Waldo Emerson that Thoreau's facial hair "will most assuredly deflect amorous advances and preserve the man's virtue in perpetuity."
Thoreau studied at Harvard University between 1833 and 1837. He lived in Hollis Hall and took courses in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathematics, and science. Legend states that Thoreau refused to pay the five-dollar fee for a Harvard diploma. In fact, the master's degree he declined to purchase had no academic merit: Harvard College offered it to graduates "who proved their physical worth by being alive three years after graduating, and their saving, earning, or inheriting quality or condition by having Five Dollars to give the college." His comment was: "Let every sheep keep its own skin", presumably a reference to the tradition of diplomas being written on vellum, a paper made from sheepskin.
During a leave of absence from Harvard in 1835, Thoreau taught school in Canton, Massachusetts. After graduating in 1837, he joined the faculty of Concord Academy, but he refused to administer corporal punishment, and the school board soon dismissed him. He and his brother John then opened a grammar school in Concord in 1838. They introduced several progressive concepts, including nature walks and visits to local shops and businesses. The school ended when John became fatally ill from tetanus in 1842.
Upon graduation Thoreau returned home to Concord, where he befriended Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson took a paternal and at times patronizing interest in Thoreau, advising the young man and introducing him to a circle of local writers and thinkers, including Ellery Channing, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his son Julian Hawthorne, who was a boy at the time.
Emerson constantly urged Thoreau to contribute essays and poems to a quarterly periodical, The Dial, and Emerson lobbied with editor Margaret Fuller to publish those writings. Thoreau's first essay published there was Natural History of Massachusetts; half book review, half natural history essay, it appeared in 1842. It consisted of revised passages from his journal, which he had begun keeping at Emerson's suggestion. The first entry on October 22, 1837, reads, "'What are you doing now?' he asked. 'Do you keep a journal?' So I make my first entry today."
Thoreau was a philosopher of nature and its relation to the human condition. In his early years he followed Transcendentalism, a loose and eclectic idealist philosophy advocated by Emerson, Fuller, and Alcott. They held that an ideal spiritual state transcends, or goes beyond, the physical and empirical, and that one achieves that insight via personal intuition rather than religious doctrine. In their view, Nature is the outward sign of inward spirit, expressing the "radical correspondence of visible things and human thoughts," as Emerson wrote in Nature (1836).
On April 18, 1841, Thoreau moved into the Emerson house. There, from 1841-1844, he served as the children's tutor, editorial assistant, and repair man/gardener. For a few months in 1843, he moved to the home of William Emerson on Staten Island, tutoring the family sons while writing for New York periodicals, aided in part by his future literary representative Horace Greeley.
Thoreau returned to Concord and worked in his family's pencil factory, which he continued to do for most of his adult life. He rediscovered the process to make a good pencil out of inferior graphite by using clay as the binder; this invention improved upon graphite found in New Hampshire in 1821 by Charles Dunbar. (The process of mixing graphite and clay, known as the Conté process, was patented by Nicolas-Jacques Conté in 1795.) Later, Thoreau converted the factory to produce plumbago (graphite), used to ink typesetting machines.
Once back in Concord, Thoreau went through a restless period. In April 1844 he and his friend Edward Hoar accidentally set a fire that consumed 300 acres (1.2 km²) of Walden Woods. He spoke often of finding a farm to buy or lease, which he felt would give him a means to support himself while also providing enough solitude to write his first book[citation needed].
Thoreau embarked on a two-year experiment in simple living on July 4, 1845, when he moved to a small self-built house on land owned by Emerson in a second-growth forest around the shores of Walden Pond. The house was not in wilderness but at the edge of town, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from his family home.
On July 24 or July 25, 1846, Thoreau ran into the local tax collector, Sam Staples, who asked him to pay six years of delinquent poll taxes. Thoreau refused because of his opposition to the Mexican-American War and slavery, and he spent a night in jail because of this refusal. (The next day Thoreau was freed, over his protests, when his aunt paid his taxes.) The experience had a strong impact on Thoreau. In January and February 1848, he delivered lectures on "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government" explaining his tax resistance at the Concord Lyceum. Bronson Alcott attended the lecture; who wrote in his journal on January 26,
Heard Thoreau's lecture before the Lyceum on the relation of the individual to the State — an admirable statement of the rights of the individual to self-government, and an attentive audience. His allusions to the Mexican War, to Mr. Hoar's expulsion from Carolina, his own imprisonment in Concord Jail for refusal to pay his tax, Mr. Hoar's payment of mine when taken to prison for a similar refusal, were all pertinent, well considered, and reasoned. I took great pleasure in this deed of Thoreau's.
Thoreau revised the lecture into an essay entitled Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience). In May 1849 it was published by Elizabeth Peabody in the Aesthetic Papers.
Thoreau is frequently quoted as espousing that the true place for a just man is in prison. He in fact actually writes in Civil Disobedience, "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
At Walden Pond, he completed a first draft of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, an elegy to his brother, John, that described their 1839 trip to the White Mountains. Thoreau did not find a publisher for this book and instead printed 1,000 copies at his own expense, though less than 300 sold. Thoreau self-published on the advice of Emerson, using Emerson's own publisher Munroe, who did little to publicize the book. Its failure put Thoreau into debt that took years to pay off, and Emerson's flawed advice caused a schism between the friends that never entirely healed.
In August 1846, Thoreau briefly left Walden to make a trip to Mount Katahdin in Maine, a journey later recorded in "Ktaadn," the first part of The Maine Woods.
Thoreau left Walden Pond on September 6, 1847. Over several years, he worked to pay off his debts and also continuously revised his manuscript. In 1854, he published Walden, or Life in the Woods, recounting the two years, two months, and two days he had spent at Walden Pond. The book compresses that time into a single calendar year, using the passage of four seasons to symbolize human development. Part memoir and part spiritual quest, Walden at first won few admirers, but today critics regard it as a classic American book that explores natural simplicity, harmony, and beauty as models for just social and cultural conditions.
In 1851, Thoreau became increasingly fascinated with natural history and travel/expedition narratives. He read avidly on botany and often wrote observations on this topic into his journal. He greatly admired William Bartram and Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle. He kept detailed observations on Concord's nature lore, recording everything from how the fruit ripened over time to the fluctuating depths of Walden Pond and the days certain birds migrated. The point of this task was to "anticipate" the seasons of nature, in his words.
He became a land surveyor and continued to write increasingly detailed natural history observations about the 26 square mile (67 km²) township in his journal, a two-million word document he kept for 24 years. He also kept a series of separate notebooks, and these observations became the source for Thoreau's late natural history writings, such as Autumnal Tints, The Succession of Trees, and Wild Apples, an essay bemoaning the destruction of indigenous and wild apple species.
Until the 1970s, Thoreau's late pursuits were dismissed by literary critics as amateur science and philosophy. With the rise of environmental history and ecocriticism, several new readings of this matter began to emerge, showing Thoreau to be both a philosopher and an analyst of ecological patterns in fields and woodlots. For instance, his late essay, "The Succession of Forest Trees," shows that he used experimentation and analysis to explain how forests regenerate after fire or human destruction, through dispersal by seed-bearing winds or animals.
He traveled to Quebec once, Cape Cod four times, and Maine three times; these landscapes inspired his "excursion" books, A Yankee in Canada, Cape Cod, and The Maine Woods, in which travel itineraries frame his thoughts about geography, history and philosophy. Other travels took him southwest to Philadelphia and New York City in 1854, and west across the Great Lakes region in 1861, visiting Niagara Falls, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Mackinac Island.
After John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, many prominent voices in the abolitionist movement distanced themselves from Brown, or damned him with faint praise. Thoreau was disgusted by this, and he composed a speech — A Plea for Captain John Brown — which was uncompromising in its defense of Brown and his actions. Thoreau's speech proved persuasive: first the abolitionist movement began to accept Brown as a martyr, and by the time of the American Civil War entire armies of the North were literally singing Brown's praises. As a contemporary biographer of John Brown put it: "If, as Alfred Kazin suggests, without John Brown there would have been no Civil War, we would add that without the Concord Transcendentalists, John Brown would have had little cultural impact."
Thoreau first contracted tuberculosis in 1835 and suffered from it sporadically over his life. In 1859, following a late night excursion to count the rings of tree stumps during a rain storm, he became ill with bronchitis. His health declined over three years with brief periods of remission, until he eventually became bedridden. Recognizing the terminal nature of his disease, Thoreau spent his last years revising and editing his unpublished works, particularly The Maine Woods and Excursions, and petitioning publishers to print revised editions of A Week and Walden. He also wrote letters and journal entries until he became too weak to continue. His friends were alarmed at his diminished appearance and were fascinated by his tranquil acceptance of death. When his aunt Louisa asked him in his last weeks if he had made his peace with God, Thoreau responded quite simply: "I did not know we had ever quarreled." Aware he was dying, Thoreau's last words were "Now comes good sailing," followed by two lone words, "moose" and "Indian." He died on 6 May 1862 at age 44.
Originally buried in the Dunbar family plot, he and members of his immediate family were eventually moved to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. Emerson wrote the eulogy spoken at his funeral. Thoreau's friend Ellery Channing published his first biography, Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist, in 1873, and Channing and another friend Harrison Blake edited some poems, essays, and journal entries for posthumous publication in the 1890s. Thoreau's Journal, often mined but largely unpublished at his death, first appeared in 1906 and helped to build his modern reputation. A new and greatly expanded edition of the Journal is underway, published by Princeton University Press. Today, Thoreau is regarded as one of the foremost American writers, both for the modern clarity of his prose style and the prescience of his views on nature and politics. His memory is honored by the international Thoreau Society.
Thoreau was an early advocate of recreational hiking and canoeing, of conserving natural resources on private land, and of preserving wilderness as public land. Thoreau was also one of the first American supporters of Darwin's theory of evolution. He was not a strict vegetarian, though he said he preferred that diet and advocated it as a means of self-improvement. He wrote in Walden: "The practical objection to animal food in my case was its uncleanness; and besides, when I had caught and cleaned and cooked and eaten my fish, they seemed not to have fed me essentially. It was insignificant and unnecessary, and cost more than it came to. A little bread or a few potatoes would have done as well, with less trouble and filth."
Thoreau neither rejected civilization nor fully embraced wilderness. Instead he sought a middle ground, the pastoral realm that integrates both nature and culture. The wildness he enjoyed was the nearby swamp or forest, and he preferred "partially cultivated country." His idea of being "far in the recesses of the wilderness" of Maine was to "travel the logger's path and the Indian trail," but he also hiked on pristine untouched land. In the essay "Henry David Thoreau, Philosopher" Roderick Nash writes: "Thoreau left Concord in 1846 for the first of three trips to northern Maine. His expectations were high because he hoped to find genuine, primeval America. But contact with real wilderness in Maine affected him far differently than had the idea of wilderness in Concord. Instead of coming out of the woods with a deepened appreciation of the wilds, Thoreau felt a greater respect for civilization and realized the necessity of balance."
On alcohol, Thoreau wrote: "I would fain keep sober always… I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor… Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?"
Thoreau's writings had far reaching influences on many public figures. Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience. So did many artists and authors including Edward Abbey, Willa Cather, Marcel Proust, William Butler Yeats, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, E. B. White, and Frank Lloyd Wright and naturalists like John Burroughs, John Muir, E. O. Wilson, Edwin Way Teale, Joseph Wood Krutch , B. F. Skinner, and David Brower. Anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman also appreciated Thoreau and referred to him as "the greatest American anarchist."
Mahatma Gandhi first read Walden in 1906 while working as a civil rights activist in Johannesburg, South Africa. He told American reporter Webb Miller, "[Thoreau's] ideas influenced me greatly. I adopted some of them and recommended the study of Thoreau to all of my friends who were helping me in the cause of Indian Independence. Why I actually took the name of my movement from Thoreau's essay 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,' written about 80 years ago."
Martin Luther King, Jr. noted in his autobiography that his first encounter with the idea of non-violent resistance was reading "On Civil Disobedience" in 1944 while attending Morehouse College. He wrote in his autobiography that it was
Here, in this courageous New Englander's refusal to pay his taxes and his choice of jail rather than support a war that would spread slavery's territory into Mexico, I made my first contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system, I was so deeply moved that I reread the work several times.
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest. The teachings of Thoreau came alive in our civil rights movement; indeed, they are more alive than ever before. Whether expressed in a sit-in at lunch counters, a freedom ride into Mississippi, a peaceful protest in Albany, Georgia, a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, these are outgrowths of Thoreau's insistence that evil must be resisted and that no moral man can patiently adjust to injustice.
The University of Michigan's New England Literature Program is an experiential literature and writing program run through the university's Department of English Language and Literature which was started in the 1970s by professors Alan Howes and Walter Clark. Howes and Clark called upon Thoreauvian ideals of nature, independence and community to create an academic program modeled after Thoreau's experiment at Walden Pond. Today, students at NELP study Thoreau's work — as well as that of several other New England writers from the 19th and 20th centuries — in relative isolation on Sebago Lake in Raymond, Maine.
American psychologist B. F. Skinner wrote that he carried a copy of Thoreau's Walden with him in his youth and, in 1945, wrote Walden Two, a fictional utopia about 1,000 members of a community living together inspired by the life of Thoreau.
Thoreau inspired children's book author and illustrator D.B. Johnson to create a series of picture books based on Thoreau. The first book Henry Hikes to Fitchburg has become a bestseller.
Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson judged Thoreau's endorsement of living alone in natural simplicity, apart from modern society, to be a mark of effeminacy:
…Thoreau's content and ecstasy in living was, we may say, like a plant that he had watered and tended with womanish solicitude; for there is apt to be something unmanly, something almost dastardly, in a life that does not move with dash and freedom, and that fears the bracing contact of the world. In one word, Thoreau was a skulker. He did not wish virtue to go out of him among his fellow-men, but slunk into a corner to hoard it for himself. He left all for the sake of certain virtuous self-indulgences.
Richard Zacks pokes fun at Thoreau in An Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge saying:
Thoreau's 'Walden, or Life in the Woods' deserves its status as a great American book but let it be known that Nature Boy went home on weekends to raid the family cookie jar. While living the simple life in the woods, Thoreau walked into nearby Concord, Mass., almost every day. And his mom, who lived less than two miles away, delivered goodie baskets filled with meals, pies and doughnuts every Saturday. The more one reads in Thoreau's unpolished journal of his stay in the woods, the more his sojourn resembles suburban boys going to their tree-house in the backyard and pretending they're camping in the heart of the jungle.
However, English novelist George Eliot, writing in the Westminster Review, characterized such critics as uninspired and narrow-minded:
People — very wise in their own eyes — who would have every man's life ordered according to a particular pattern, and who are intolerant of every existence the utility of which is not palpable to them, may pooh-pooh Mr. Thoreau and this episode in his history, as unpractical and dreamy.
Poet John Greenleaf Whittier had a conflicting reaction, saying that the message in Walden was that man should lower himself to the level of a woodchuck and walk on four legs. He said: "Thoreau's Walden is a capital reading, but very wicked and heathenish… After all, for me, I prefer walking on two legs".
Works -Henry David Thoreau
- Civil Disobedience
- Herald of Freedom
- Life Without Principle
- The Last Days of John Brown
- Paradise (to be) Regained
- A Plea for Captain John Brown
- Reform and the Reformers
- Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown
- The Service
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Slavery in Massachusetts
- Thomas Carlyle and His Works
- Walden
- A Walk to Wachusett
- Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum
- The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
- Thoreau Society
- Abolitionism · Anarchism
- Anarchism in the United States
- Civil disobedience
- Concord, Massachusetts
- Conscientious objection
- Direct action · Ecology
- Environmentalism
- History of tax resistance
- Individualist anarchism
- John Brown · Lyceum movement
- Nonviolent resistance
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Simple living · Tax resistance
- Tax resisters · Transcendentalism
- The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
- Walden Pond
- * The Service (1840)
- * A Walk to Wachusett (1842)
- * Paradise (to be) Regained (1843)
- * The Landlord (1843)
- * Sir Walter Raleigh (1844)
- * Herald of Freedom (1844)
- * Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum (1845)
- * Reform and the Reformers (1846-8)
- * Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847)
- * A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
- * Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience (1849)
- * An Excursion to Canada (1853)
- * Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
- * Walden (1854)
- * A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
- * Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)
- * The Last Days of John Brown (1860)
- * Walking (1861)
- * Autumnal Tints (1862)
- * Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree (1862)
- * Excursions (1863)
- * Life Without Principle (1863)
- * Night and Moonlight (1863)
- * The Highland Light (1864)
- * The Maine Woods (1864)
- * Cape Cod (1865)
- * Letters to Various Persons (1865)
- * A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866)
- * Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881)
- * Summer (1884)
- * Winter (1888)
- * Autumn (1892)
- * Misellanies (1894)
- * Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894)
- * Poems of Nature (1895)
- * Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1898)
- * The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1905)
- * Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1906)


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That giant sucking sound you hear is the post-Labor Day return back to the normal routine. Not only is it loud and annoying, the transition itself can be quite jarring. In my latest In Good Faith column, I write about that which we both crave and fear: routine. Routine Matters A Youtube video of a […]
That giant sucking sound you hear is the post-Labor Day return back to the normal routine. Not only is it loud and annoying, the transition itself can be quite jarring. In my latest In Good Faith column, I write about that which we both crave and fear: routine.
Routine Matters
A Youtube video of a mom doing the �happy dance� after putting her children on the bus for the first day of school went viral this week. The school bus pulls up, the kids hop on, N�SYNC�s �Bye, Bye, Bye� is cued up, and the Framingham mother starts dancing wildly on the curb.
I think it resonates because it captures the swirl of emotions this time of year — overjoyed, wistful, excited, anxious. Sure, this mom may have gone back into her house and poured herself an Irish coffee to celebrate her renewed freedom but we can laugh at her exuberance because that�s likely not what happened. She probably took a moment to reflect on the fleeting nature of childhood and the joys of unscheduled time with her family over the summer. And then poured herself that drink.
Whether you found yourself weeping, leaping for joy, or experiencing a combination of emotions, we tend to have mixed feelings about the return of the fall routine. So long mid-afternoon margaritas, hello late-afternoon homework harangue. Good bye beach umbrellas, hello alarm clocks.
There�s just something in the air that changes the whole tenor of our being once the calendar flips to September and it can be a jarring transition. Whether or not you have school-aged children at home, no one is immune to the post-Labor Day metamorphosis from lazy to crazy.
The reality is that we both fear and crave routine. At one level it pushes against our innate Jack Kerouac-esque wanderlust. If we�re tied to the routine of our daily lives and responsibilities, how can we go on that spur of the moment road trip to Atlantic City? Then again, how would we explain said trip to our boss, spouse, children, et al?
Yet, routine orders the chaos of life and provides comfort in the midst of that which we cannot control. And there is a lot we can�t control in life.
This is the reason so many are drawn to faiths that embrace the liturgical tradition. There is comfort in the routine of worship that speaks to the soul. While there are seasonal and musical changes and different messages depending on the sacred readings, the structure of the service itself doesn�t vary from week to week. Parishioners know what�s coming; there�s a liturgical arc to everything that happens. While some find this �boring� or �rote,� those who embrace the liturgical tradition find that the divine experience transcends words and meets worshippers in the familiarity of the liturgy.
Many congregations hold post-Labor Day services titled �Back to Church� Sunday or �Homecoming Sunday.� Some even call it �Rally Sunday,� which to me always sounds like a demolition derby will be involved. Here at St. John�s in Hingham, we do something similar on the weekend after Labor Day — the choir returns, Church School kicks off, we have a barbecue after church, and our Saturday 5:00 pm service starts up again that weekend. It�s all a recognition that many of us have gotten out of the routine and are seeking to get back into it.
Of course when it comes to the tension between freedom and routine, the proverbial grass is always greener. In the midst of routine we seek freedom and in the midst of freedom we crave routine. When we�re mired in the rut of being over-scheduled we want to toss our iPhone into Hingham Harbor and fly to �St. Somewhere.� Yet when the hot, humid days of late August start piling up, we dream about having a plan on a crisp fall day.
The solution is to enjoy each moment as it comes without looking ahead or behind. Living in the present is an ongoing spiritual challenge but it�s one that we can engage right here right now. So jump on in! It�s time.