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The Protectors Are Coming!

“I went to the store the other day to buy a bolt for our front door, for, as I told the storekeeper, the Governor was coming here. “Aye,” said he, “and the Legislature too.” “Then l will take two bolts,” said I. He said that there had been a steady demand for bolts and locks of late, for our protectors were coming.”

― Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861, p. 578

Beatrix, age 13, our puny puritan, closes her eyes when people kiss in movies and insists we inform her when it’s over.

Happy Valentines Day from our ice cold hearts to you.

“The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature’s. Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in cach moment. Take any other course, and life will be a succession of regrets. There is no world for the penitent and regretful.”

― Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861, p. 563