The Readers' Thoreau | Keith Badger | Activity https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/members/keithbadger/activity/ Activity feed for Keith Badger. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:00:24 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 c4a0b47aeba1c4c23ef9bb10ddc5d304 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 15-29 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-15-29/#comment-2155 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 02:20:16 -0500 [I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.]

Living in the moment inwardly, with attention to both worlds (outer & inner) is truly […]

]]> 0 8ad30cfbc02e8b2c20910c0f7996eeff Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 15-29 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-15-29/#comment-2154 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 02:06:37 -0500 [It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.] 

The key work here is practical; something in short order these days.

]]> 0 bf4127e9830adf4819ddc84bd10f4adb Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 45-58 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-45-58/#comment-2132 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:27:28 -0500 [Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man’smorning work in this world? I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be […]

]]> 0 ca186a80c5625f0050c7e9b10cdd064f Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 30-44 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-30-44/#comment-2131 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:01:09 -0500 [Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.]

I like Jeff Crammer’s comment on Thoreau’s use of the word Economy in his annotated edition where he reminds us […]

]]> 0 7dbebd7a8230fcd63e960c694e77c045 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 30-44 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-30-44/#comment-2130 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:42:35 -0500 [according to the fable]

Perhaps better to use Myth? Which, like Thoreau’s Walden, the Bible certainly is. Good myth I suspect for those who mine the depths, but not something born out by history.

]]> 0 457a2d990939a876eafe13ef0a141f65 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 30-44 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-30-44/#comment-2129 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:25:05 -0500 [I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit?]

Or the manner of  the inner man being  more […]

]]> 0 19f0ef4982153be035fd1f64b504ba5b Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 30-44 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-30-44/#comment-2128 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:10:12 -0500 The strict business habits required when dealing with the “celestial empire” appear to be those habits of head and heart that allow one to mine the wealth of human resource deep within at native bottom.

]]> 0 54f413acf235b414d93636225115fcaa Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 15-29 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-15-29/#comment-2127 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 18:00:19 -0500 I really like the comment on Pribeck’s take on Thoreau’s symbolic use of wind; I had never carried that image before but I will now take note! A good one -thanks. 

]]> 0 9588ee4bf4da5e403f18d67870f97799 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 15-29 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-15-29/#comment-2125 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 22:56:40 -0500 I don’t think Thoreau is measuring time here in any way, or passing time to be specific. To be purely perceptive of, and attuned through the senses to the present moment where one is in that moment, as opposed to […]

]]> 0 857ca52b18d83170a2a914fd196fab99 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 15-29 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-15-29/#comment-2124 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 22:17:19 -0500 ..to embark

]]> 0 2ccd1d45df4cf6cec50b32e5930daf2a Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 15-29 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-15-29/#comment-2123 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 22:16:21 -0500 To adventure on life is a sweet call for us embark upon the Hero’s journey.

]]> 0 7779209c444c1f2fb942a2d22fd0c54c Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 15-29 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-15-29/#comment-2122 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 20:49:08 -0500 There is a duplication of the last two sentences in this paragraph.

It is sometimes said that a miracle is the action of a higher world’s law operating in a lower world (as presented in Edwin Abbott’s […]

]]> 0 b3dee256528bab126731d37031f4c829 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-1-14/#comment-2121 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 20:24:26 -0500 I love Thoreau’s use of paradox, forever reminding us that “every stick has two ends” or never to get all that comfortable with a static thought. Look at how he presents the capacity to “look through each other’s […]

]]> 0 0c772c624098d345d840b282f79f7243 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-1-14/#comment-2119 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:37:24 -0500 Is Thoreau merely asking us to do our own thinking? That if we have experienced nothing for ourselves, we have not done anything at all? When I think of Thoreau’s interest, and understanding, of Native American […]

]]> 0 8f305f3caef89a39f88351659e614fb1 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-1-14/#comment-2118 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 02:56:46 -0500 I can’t help but wonder what Thoreau would have thought about the game Monopoly? As a member of the GAMES Magazine Hall of Fame, Monopoly is the most popular board game in the world; sold in 103 countries and […]

]]> 0 c2f298c72da1985d2194ee73c7dd4cf4 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-1-14/#comment-2117 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 02:48:31 -0500 Or like a pearl galvanizing us to dive deep in search of further treasure.

]]> 0 11a02d4f3f81c12d39c799166f17539b Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-1-14/#comment-2116 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 02:39:37 -0500 The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. 

This sentence, as an educator, strikes me most forcefully as our current industrial model of […]

]]> 0 b93a867369b7a94b030707b1b302de9d Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-1-14/#comment-2115 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 02:33:04 -0500 I think our reading labors are often mistaken too, and I find it interesting that it (Reading) is the very next chapter after he tells us where he lived, and what he lived for.

]]> 0 19b5bbb614b1c91bb34d82f47ab9f7a7 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-1-14/#comment-2114 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 02:23:14 -0500 I sense that Thoreau is intimating much about the mythic adventure he has taken (called Walden) in these opening pages. It is very reminiscent of J. Cambell’s “Hero With A Thousand Faces” where he speaks about the […]

]]> 0 7865f6a4c1d4baffc4b3edc500967697 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-1-14/#comment-2113 Thu, 18 Dec 2014 01:14:22 -0500 I would welcome any insight into the comment above that “There are those who question just how “simple and sincere” T’s own account is—and not without reason.” Why was this so, and who are the ones who question […]

]]> 0 f41e312023f92304f2716348e939e2ba Keith Badger left a comment on a post Economy 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-1-14/#comment-2112 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:23:24 -0500 I feel that Thoreau’s use of the word Economy, based on the Greek origin of Oikos (house) and Oikonomia (household management), is to relate us to our inner household (the temple) and that his intent on waking us […]

]]> 0 df1904552ff8cb875f6b42f603b737c1 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Title Page - 1854 Edition in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/#comment-2111 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:55:10 -0500 Is there any possibility of Thoreau borrowing from the Christian tradition and positing “the woods” as a corollary of “wilderness”, where the demons (in us) are often portrayed and living? To reach one’s “higher […]

]]> 0 dda31bd107d512e2c4d38675c9bd86b5 Keith Badger posted an update: Thanks! https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/7404/ Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:11:48 -0500 Thanks!

]]> 0 69ec5eb2466561c4baf5b21b7ee27aba Keith Badger joined the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/3665/ Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:17:10 -0500 0 1bb5dc4a031c882e36714e10ad334285 Keith Badger posted a new activity comment https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/3663/#acomment-3664 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:16:24 -0500 Happy to be part of a discussion. Just discovered the site and looking forward to many wildwood ruminations!
Many thanks in advance.
Keith

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