Rejecting Advent

I come to writing this essay in a melancholic mood, and as ever, I come in search of that elusive something. It is Advent 2021. Advent is the season for waiting and expectation, and I, at this moment in my life find myself waiting. Waiting somewhat against my will. Waiting for the next chapter of my life to begin.

In Christian terms, Advent is when we performatively await the birth of Christ, and eschatologically wait for his second coming…

Christianity, Non-DualityEverett Brook20 December 2021Ralph Waldo Emerson, AdventComment

Still upon the Shores of Walden

Everett Brook20 July 2017Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, Walden, James K. Polk, Essays on Civil Disobedience, Civil Disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi, Harvard, Pencil, The American ScholarComment

Sitting with Emerson by the Fire

Everett Brook10 July 2017Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, Henry David Thoreau, Transcendentalism, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, PoetryComment

Lammas Communion Address

Everett Brook31 July 2016Communion, Lord's Supper, Lammas, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Cliff Reed, loaf mass