News from 3 Chairs
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If Thoreau Were Alive He’d Be Shouting From The Rafters
from All Things Considered Henry David Thoreau spent hours hiking in the woods near his small cabin on Walden Pond. “He figured out that the way to break through into his own way of doing things was to think as he walked,” explains biographer Laura Dassow Walls. Walls, an English literature professor at Notre Dame,…
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Pilgrimage
Originally published on Random Acts of Writing, July 2011 (On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into his cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. One hundred and sixty-six years later, we embarked on a day trip.) Walden Pond was lovely, though a meditative pilgrimage to Thoreau’s place of inspiration better…
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Such is the Reading of Walden
Originally published on Random Acts of Writing, September 2011 The copyright date on my hardcover copy of Henry David Thoerau’s Walden is 1950. I am sure it was my father’s — his handwriting so distinct, I can recognize it even in the precise, straight underlines of text he chose to highlight. We find common ground in…
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Celebrating Thoreau at 200
Three Chairs Publishing is celebrating what would have been Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday this week with a few posts about the man who inspired our name with his quote: “I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” Today, Larry Buell, Harvard’s Powell M. Cabot Research Professor…
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Opening Reception: Where the Whole Universe Dwells
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents Where the Whole Universe Dwells at Perspectives…The Gallery at Whitney Center. Where the Whole Universe Dwells brings together five artists who balance between tangible and intangible through an innate understanding of smallness within a vast universe and the relationship between infinitesimal and cosmic. The Arts Council will…
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Gallery Show & Sneak Peek!
Want a preview of our upcoming book Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind? Then come to the Opening Reception for Where the Whole Universe Dwells, an exhibit at Perspectives…The Gallery at Whitney Center, on Saturday, May 20 from 3-5pm. The exhibit, presented by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven and curated by Debbie…
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Inauguration Nation: Artists Respond
PROUD TO BE PARTICIPATING IN THIS THOUGHT-PROVOKING EXHIBIT OF 36 LOCAL ARTISTS. JOIN ME AT THE OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 3-6PM! At this unprecedented time in our nation’s history, Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville, CT has created an open forum for local artists to respond to the political and social climate. In Inauguration Nation,…
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This book is an oasis…and a great gift idea!
“This book is an oasis, a place to visit to reconnect with beauty and nature. I like to randomly open to any page and read where I land, poetry or prose, interwoven with gorgeous photographs. Invariably, what I find is calming and centering, like a little vacation from the swirling world. An inspiring collection!” (Amazon…
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DISCOVER THE MAGIC OF NATURE!
Offered as an antidote to the fast pace of our lives and the toll it takes on our minds and spirits, the book LOOK UP! Musings on the Nature of Mindfulness is a clarion call to get up and get out — to look up from our work, our distractions, our routines — and to…
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Book Review: LOOK UP!
Check out what fellow blogger C.B. Wentworth had to say about my new book LOOK UP! Musings on the Nature of Mindfulness. If you have never read her blog, be sure to check it out – she’s a creative wonder! (http://cbwentworth.wordpress.com/) “In a fast-paced world that often makes us forget our humanity, we need to…
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Three Chairs Announces New Book!
Three Chairs Publishing is pleased to announce… LOOK UP! Musings on the Nature of Mindfulness 75 ESSAYS & POEMS by Local Writer Jen Payne 100 ORIGINAL COLOR PHOTOS of the Woods & Shoreline of Connecticut QUOTATIONS by Philosophers, Poets, Naturalists, and Treasured Writers LOOK UP! narrates one woman’s journey from running her own business 24/7 to…
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