If you look closely at a spot in a meadow, you will see some things you may not enjoy looking at—weeds, bugs, funguses, bare spots of dirt, bits of trash, animal bones and so on...
This week the words of Wendell Berry come to mind: "We concluded in 1945, after our atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that we had made war 'unthinkable' – and we have gone on thinking of it, preparing for it, fighting it, suffering and profiting from it ever since."...