If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

– Henry David Thoreau

Children near their home in the slum area known as “El Fangitto”

Houses in the slum area known as “El Fangitto” (The Mud) in San Juan, P.R.

Foolishness Is Like The Sun

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”

Historical bird’s eye view map of Ironwood, Michigan from 1886

This old map shows Ironwood, Michigan in the late 19th century.

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Historic old map of Green Bay, Wisconsin from 1867

Historic bird’s eye view of Green Bay, Wisconsin from 1867

Beautifully restored map of St. Augustine, Florida from 1885

Historic bird’s eye view of St. Augustine, Florida from 1885