Broad Margin
“I love a broad margin to my life” - Henry David Thoreau
What does this margin mean?
Possibly Thoreau refers to the typical day he spent by Walden lake
which is described as below:
“Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath.
I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon
Rapt in a reverie
Amidst the pines and
Hickories and sumachs
In undisturbed solitude and stillness”
Possibly, Thoreau refers to the margin as the
Long time-blocks of solitude and stillness
That he made affordable in a day
Through his simplicity experiment of the two plus years
He spent on the shores of Walden!
Like on a white-sheet of paper
Rather than cramping every inch of it
With words rather
Leave a broad-margin on the paper - to write out only
The essentials on the white canvas
For future ruminations !
Like a busy working day
Rather than cramming every hour with
Busyness
Could you make it affordable with interim
Time-blocks of solitude, stillness leading to Serenity
That shall lead you to deep-work!
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