Bliss by Harry Bliss for October 11, 2021

Black bear mothers don’t put up with civil disobedience.

I Thoreauly read this comic.

I take it the remains are out of view on the lower right!!!

No! I glanced down, was SURE this was gonna be a Steve Martin collab!

Thoreau was smart.

thoreau’s no dummy – looks like thoreau left and momma bear just watch him walk away

The part of Thoreau’s life you don’t hear about that often!

Tracks of his tears.

Thoreau went and lived in the “wilds” of Concord next to Walden Pond. Except when he was sitting by the fireplace in Emerson’s house which was a stones throw from his Walden Pond hut, especially when it was a little chilly or damp out. Mrs. Emerson regularly fed him. Ralph Waldo provided clothes, ink, writing paper, and all manner of support. While he was writing about what’s missing and wrong with “modern” civilization, he was “borrowing” (without ever returning the favor) from his civilized friends and freely partaking in what he criticized. He was a tax cheat, too. Basically, he was a parasite and a bum. No wonder he became a model for the hippies of the future :P Great writer, though and an avid abolitionist.

They have found tracks of humans at White Sands (NM) that date back over 20,000 years. Much older than the Clovis people who were thought to be the first humans in the Americas.

Henry was Thoreau-ly scared.

I met a bear who was very much there…

I was at Gagetown CFB in New Brunswick with my Nat’l Guard detachment back in the early ’80s. We were doing a night exercise in the woods and kept getting tangled up with a black bear and her cub. Happily, she was very patient with us.

Smart man as evidenced by his tracks……

where did the bears go? possibly beamed up?

I choked on my coffee reading this one. Totally worth it.

Priceless! Love it! Thanks for the laugh. Great way to start a day.

A friend of mine lived just a stone’s Thoreau from Walden Pond.

once again, thoreau avoids the beaten track…