Speaking of films...I recently was incredibly moved by the film Into the Wild. It kinda messed me up because there is part of me that yearns to run away, to reject this complex, conforming society and live simpler, live amongst the wind and stars -free of it all. It was just a few months back that I was reading Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums which stirred up the same kind of freewheeler thoughts and impulses that I have lying below the surface somewhere. I guess being quite confined as I am at the moment has heightened this need to be outdoors and unrestrained. The movie has had me daydreaming about having a little cabin somewhere well out of mobile range, at last to escape to on weekends. So a few days after seeing the film I went to Gleebooks and bought Walden: Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau which was one of the books our hero was reading in the film. I just wanted to share with you all a little piece of it's wisdom:
"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for those are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in."
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