Friday, August 29, 2025

A little bit of Zen (57)

A black-and-white photograph of the American writer, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), in old age, sitting regally at his desk


"Congratulate yourself when you have done something strange or extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous world."


Ralph Waldo Emerson


I've always liked to challenge stuffy conventions and unexamined 'truths', to do things that are bold and unsettling and out of the ordinary. Emerson, it seems, was a man after my own heart. (There aren't too many.....)


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