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Simplicity, self-reliance, and humility.

Upon asking Google to summarise the philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, the words simplicity, self-reliance, and humility were highlighted in blue. They sound good, don’t they?

I recognised in myself a faint but certain ability to achieve all three of these things. As if they reside in me just as surely as my capacity for love, compassion or fear. I felt all at once inspired and comforted and did perhaps all that I could do, which was to sit in silence and wonder.

I left the desk, switched off the lights and locked the door behind me. As I made my way through town my thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the sound of the weir. Which in turn amplified the sound of the wind jostling the leaves. The world was now alive to me through the song that it sings. I heard on top of it all the pat, pat, pat of my own feet on the pavement. I am here, playing my part. A contributor.

The sky is thick and low, it’s been threatening a downpour all day. I cross my fingers and hope for rain.