Opinion
There are a number of us cleaning up after others. Like a messy home that needs tending, we notice the garbage strewn along roads and shorelines.
There was one special responsibility that I was always glad to fulfill and looked forward to each December. “Don’t forget to stop by the school nurse’s office and pick up the Red Stocking.”
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. As I discovered, it’s a very good rule to insure smooth sailing.
December proceeds in the fashion ordained long, long ago: chill, dampness, wind, but what takes precedence increasingly is the feeling of Christmas.
This letter is in response to Gus Ben David, who dismissed proponents of the Mill Brook dam removal as “sidewalk biologists.”
The winter moths have arrived — boy have they arrived!