LIVING DELIBERATELY

 

LIVING DELIBERATELY - Thoreau began his classic Walden by saying, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life."  And he encouraged others to live just one day as deliberately - as consciously, intentionally, carefully, in an unhurried way - as Nature.  Such as the female Mallard duck I watched on Rangeley Lake, Maine.  But what if we tried to live every day deliberately?  What if we sought to live the day instead of letting the day and its demands live us?