My Transcendentalist Padlet by MENNA EVANS https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg en-us 2022-10-04 17:12:56 UTC 2022-10-24 02:23:57 UTC hello@padlet.com 1A. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351417218 It has been set in stone, craved into the cement base of my brain: I will not discover I had not lived when life for me has closed its doors; but rather I will live life like it has never been lived before. ]]> 2022-10-22 03:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351417218 1B. “I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least—and it is commonly more than that—sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements” 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351418172 Break the cycle: shut off the device, put your boots on, and spend time outside; the other priorities are important but they will be there when you return.]]> 2022-10-22 03:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351418172 1C. “The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches” 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351419703 Only when you pull yourself from the water will you realize you were drowning the whole time; the key to separation from the chaos of the world is through the path of nature. ]]> 2022-10-22 03:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351419703 1D. “Thus is Art, a nature passed through the alembic of man. Thus in art, does nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works” 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351421059 It is beautiful to consider a world where beauty in its art is solely based on nature and void of standardized human physique. ]]> 2022-10-22 03:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351421059 1E. “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius” 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351422690 To think for yourself in a way that is completely absent of others' criticism and philosophy is wondrous in theory, but can one also prefer the absence of others' validation and criticism as well?]]> 2022-10-22 04:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351422690 2A. O Me! O Life! By Walt Whitman 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351852202 Although the world may feel massive and you may feel small, you exist and therefore have an identity. Although you may feel like you are faithless and foolish, you have a verse to contribute. We have the opportunity to write our own verses and sing them in the great song of life. ]]> 2022-10-22 18:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351852202 2B. Dead Poets Society 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351854572 Carpe Diem; Seize the day boys, make your life extraordinary. ]]> 2022-10-22 18:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351854572 3. What will your verse be? 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351880277 While I will continue to live aside the phrase ‘Carpe Diem’ until I die, but I will also live by the phrase “So Others May Live”, or the motto of the U.S Coast Guard Rescue Swim Team. I will endure the worst of open, seemingly endless dark seas to save others so they may live. I chose this not for the glory but for the simple fact that death is inevitable, and while slightly terrifying, I chose to leave this world with the order to save another than to leave this world wishing I could save my own. 

]]> 2022-10-22 19:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351880277 4. An Idea 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351899818 How it is comprised
An idea realized
Running against the grain
An idea can be gained
The isolation of the mind
One can discover the idea; they all are so blind
Illusions to unveil
The idea: one or the other trail
An Idea 
Reduced, simplified bearings
The tradition: A Red Herring
The cycle; endless
The life; now senseless
The arm of one’s own can only pull them from the trench
Only now, right now; the years must be clenched 
Cross the bridge or take the noose
The years; so gone, so loose
Shy away and run deliberately
An idea: grasp it by the throat and live vigorously

]]> 2022-10-22 20:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351899818 5. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) By Billy Joel 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351941828 If moving up in the world, momma, means that I will waste away my life saving up for materialistic things then momma I'm movin' out.]]> 2022-10-22 21:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351941828 8. A realistic balance between Transcendentalism and Life 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351983543 A full frontal ascendance into Transcendentalism is simply unobtainable in today's world; however, a little transcendentalism is better than whatsoever.]]> 2022-10-23 00:10:12 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2351983543 7.1 Flying to Oregon 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2352824198 Flying to Oregon to go hiking and see family; beautiful even when we were soaking wet from the rain.]]> 2022-10-24 02:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2352824198 7.2 Zip lining across the Grand Canyon 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2352826793 How to see things from a different perspective while hoping you don't fall to your death 101: The Grand Canyon]]> 2022-10-24 02:04:01 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2352826793 7.3 The Grand Canyon Herself 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2352828065 She makes you appreciate beauty in nature; beautiful in all her entirety. ]]> 2022-10-24 02:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2352828065 9. Nature: lessons; to contribute beneficially, to be self-reliant. 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2352833119 To fully understand Transcendentalism is to understand the lessons nature teaches us, the importance of thinking for yourself, and how thinking for yourself is ultimately better for society as a whole; this, in turn, results in the understanding of how transcendentalism teaches individuals, with the help of nature, to correctly contribute to society.]]> 2022-10-24 02:09:32 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2352833119 6. #graspentity 3685793 https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2352835551 To suck the marrow out of life, to live deliberately, one must grasp entity; clench life by the throat and live. ]]> 2022-10-24 02:11:41 UTC https://padlet.com/3685793/1dstc46ddjv8cnsg/wish/2352835551