0  I bumped into a post on Marginalian (aka Brainpickings) about Walt Whitman’s early stroke.

 

1  I came across Specimen Days, Whitman’s last work, a miscellany that I posted about late last week.

 

2  Ran into his Preface to Leaves of Grass

 

 

3  Inspired, here was my first draft at paraphrasing/remixing Whitman’s Credo using Etherpad as my writing space. The parentheticals are my first go at translating.  Hubris? I know.

 

4  Here is my second draft of his Credo.

 

5  I thought if you saw my translation that you might want to give it a go.  I have not finished with this, but I have made a start.  I thought this was a new idea, but it turns out Parker Palmer had it before me.

6 Lastly, here is my director’s commentary on translating Whitman’s Credo. This is just rambling off the dome so take it as the very roughest of cuts, but I think there are some insights there. Plus, it is only 3 minutes and 36 seconds long: