From Garden to Garbage

All of us know about waste.  It costs us!  And it clutters us!  But it's rare that someone actually adds it all up.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/from-farm-to-fridge-to-garbage-can/

This today in the New York Times.  Human nature is phenomenally entertaining!  In a country that struggles financially to make sure that every child has enough to eat, that invents social welfare programs as a safety-net, AND that moans mightily about the cost of it all, we waste good stuff!

When I was very small, we washed cans after taking the food out, cut out both ends, and flattened them for the "scrap metal drive", making sure that metal became defensive weaponry in the great WWII.  Now that I'm grown, I help with a clean-up project along the highway, picking up trash we toss.

Values are like a garden - - - and there is no self-tending garden!  Values either grow or perish, depending on the attention that the gardener of such things applies.

What sort of lesson in all this?  The whole world of philosophy can be approached just through this doorway!  Happy trails!