“So you are here to live,” Pa-mel-a explains it to herself and us, when she has learned the date of our departure, while finishing a fashion transaction today.

So simple, and so precise, her words.  Not at all unlike the Movida piece of transformable clothing made in Italy by VagaMé.  Elegant and intricate, too.

Is it extravagance, or arrogance, that prompts Thoreau to add “deliberately” to the common verb of human experience (to live)?  If only to wake his neighbors!

Flipping my way through The Senses of Walden, I shall try to take up such impertinent questions in a fashion adapted for slow travel.