If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

– Henry David Thoreau

Think happy thoughts

DWELL upon thoughts of what you really want in your life…

Historic landowners map of Marlborough, CT from 1869

Vintage landowners map of Marlborough, Connecticut from 1869

Beautiful bird’s eye view of Terryville, Connecticut from 1894

This old map shows Terryville, Connecticut in the late 19th century.

Beautifully restored map of Norwich, CT from 1876

This old map shows Norwich, Connecticut as it looked in 1876.