The Marrow Spoon

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world…”—Thoreau. “Walden” was published 159 years ago today.

Featured Artwork of the Day: Marrow Spoon | 1750-1800 | American http://met.org/188jt4f