At Walden Pond

     
       

Walden Pond has become a kind of touchstone

for us. The first time we visited, on a lark,

it was late summer and the pond was fringed

with families. Kids were jumping and splashing

in the water; laughter echoed off the rounded trails.

Still in all the evident delight, a kind of peace

settled over the pond.

A solace resides there and each time we go,

we find it.