a family aloft through hazy fall
and hardy winter into sopping spring.’’
“Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.
When things in the world in general and/or in your own little world in particular seem almost intolerably tense, you can’t beat wandering around in nature without an itinerary for relief. I remember that fondly from my boyhood in a small, still partly rural, town on Massachusetts Bay. Alone, or with a pal or two, I’d go “exploring’’. And it was a good place to explore.