tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176495290528788226.post6051656345351901487..comments2024-03-11T22:01:37.417-05:00Comments on Modern Day Redneck: Two StepModern Day Redneckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682843961510053146noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176495290528788226.post-41158867110375255862010-07-30T20:25:09.466-05:002010-07-30T20:25:09.466-05:00"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simpli..."Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail."<br />Henry David Thoreau<br /><br />Thoreau, of course, was famous for building a cabin in the woods and living there for a couple of years as an experiment to see just how much it took to live and if a person could be self sufficient without having to work 24/7 until he drops from exhaustion.headybrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176495290528788226.post-60135761791154344612010-07-30T20:19:49.811-05:002010-07-30T20:19:49.811-05:00"If one advances confidently in the direction..."If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours ... In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness."<br />Henry David Thoreauheadybrewnoreply@blogger.com