Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Living Deliberately—In Quiet Desperation

  My soul longed to stand tall, even as it remained shackled to the cowardice of my flesh.

  RMDell’Orfano

  January 21, 2026

  Autobio

  1960s America, academic materialism, faith and providence, Harvard, Henry David Thoreau, Jr., Living Deliberately, Martin Luther King, memoir excerpt, MIT, moral courage, Path Perilous, pilgrimage, Primitive diets, quiet desperation, Ralph Waldo Emerson, roots and branches, spiritual search, transcendentalism, Walden Pond

• Plato’s Cave Shadows

  In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the shadows on the wall represent illusions and the false reality that people perceive as truth.

  RMDell’Orfano

  November 25, 2025

  Autobio

  cave of ignorance, Chained prisoners all, Nonconformist, Plato’s Cave, Ralph Waldo Emerson