A CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM e.e. cummings
Watching the increasingly commercial emphasis during the Christmas Season, it is little wonder Albert Schweitzer described a kind of naïveté where people are unaware of the silent, spiritual battles within.  Although blatant commercialism was far less intense during the time Henry Thoreau wrote “Walden,†(1850) it probably contributed to his efforts to strive to avoid … [Read more…]