In this dark moment in our country’s history, stained by a corrupt administration that lies to, threatens, extorts, and punishes its own people, that cleaves divisions among us, that celebrates bigotry and cruelty, that instead of serving people it cuts services to people in need—within this anxious moment, there is still sublimebeauty, there is October. Is the difference only that one is human nature and the other simply nature? I hope there is a sublime side of human nature too, and as the leaves fall, kindness and compassion can somehow rise. One can hope.
