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Dave came to dinner in the “Faith Cafe”–my little breakfast nook off the kitchen in my abode in the woods west of Boston. I decided it was a “red meat night”–rare for me–and so I grilled Buffalo Burgers (I kid you not–you can buy the meat at Bread & Circus. As Dave said, “I guess they found some more of them, and it’s ok to eat them.”) 

We talked of — you guessed it — blogs and revolution!  At one point Dave asked “what can we do next at Berkman with the blogs?”  One thing we can perhaps concentrate on is the “art of the essay” and take edgy, controversial positions that we are passionate about, and argue them in well-edited pieces that we hope will have some legs. Chris Lydon is heading in that direction certainly. His inspiration, Ralph Waldo Emerson, lived just a few miles from my house–and Emerson consciously drew together and was the caretaker for a community of essayists, radicals and mystics–including Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott and Louisa May Alcott.  So maybe blogdom is home to our worldwide Walden, and perhaps we can find some new and fun ways to encourage each other as free thinkers.