disabled.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A place for people who are chronically ill, mentally ill, disabled, and friends/families/allies to come together, meet, share knowledge and random banter, and just about anything else.

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Sometimes I forget, as someone who chooses to immerse himself in and Thoreau scholarship, that there are still lots of misconceptions about his life and work. I highly recommend the biography, "Henry David Thoreau: A Life," by Laura Dassow Walls

nathanlovestrees

As John Updike said in the introduction to the Princeton edition of "Walden":

"...the book itself risks being as revered and unread as the Bible."