27 January 2022: "What can one do but read the news and weep at our victories even?" --Bronson Alcott, in a letter to a friend in September 1862, not long after Antietam.
Reading through John Matteson's Eden's Outcasts, about Bronson and Louisa May Alcott, this afternoon and feeling very connected to this insight from old Bronson.
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