waldo

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“This room holds a lot of memories and I thank God every day for each and every one of them,” she wrote, before going on to share a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built of love and dreams.”

From MarketWatch

Even the eminent Fuller — the first editor of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalist journal, the Dial, and literary editor of the New York Tribune — signed her columns with an asterisk, or simply “F.”

From Los Angeles Times

She recounted how she would regularly greet an African gray named Waldo with, “Are you handsome?” — until he apparently took offense at the focus on his looks.

From Los Angeles Times

She looked closely at famous literary works — Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self Reliance" and the pioneer stories of the Little House on the Prairie book series — to expose not only the authors' personal hypocrisy but, more importantly, how these works have skewed our understanding of American history.

From Salon

He would stand in front of a mirror and speak lines from Yeats and Ralph Waldo Emerson, straining to avoid the contortion of his face muscles.

From Seattle Times