Solitude
(I am reading an extract from Henry David Thoreau's Walden)
"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitute. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert."


Angelos Antonaropoulos performing the Whirling Dervishes' dance in the yard of the Tower of the Winds.
The site of Thoreau's cabin.