The Inconvenience of It All
(Erin Otwell / The Free Press)
Moving from San Francisco to the middle of Montana has made me patient, because I have no other choice.
In my efforts over 26 years to motivate high school juniors to engage themselves with the writings of Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Margaret Fuller—pioneers of the transcendentalist literary movement in the mid-nineteenth century—I gave them homework to live a simpler life for a month.
I instructed my students to give up one convenience, which…
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