“The World is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; --Little we see in Nature that is ours…”
William Wordsworth’s lines seem to me more relevant today than they might have been during his lifetime. Twenty-four hours a day, every day, we are bombarded with bad news: catastrophic natural disasters, mass shootings, wars, famine, poverty, political dissension, oppression of minority groups, and the list continues. Cable news never sleeps. How can we survive the daily onslaught of miserable events?
I wrote the above paragraph in the “Gardening Corner” for Thanksgiving 2017, and I see that today we remain troubled by many of the same issues that disturbed and frightened us seven years ago, but Thanksgiving has come round again as it does every year, with its eternal message of gratitude. On this one day, we will celebrate family and friends with abundant food and football, but what about the other 364 days of the year? What do we celebrate the rest of...