Earth Day Irony.
The ability to appreciate irony is a virtue that helps some of us cling to a degree of sanity in this nutty world. We are repeatedly bemused that nothing is the way you'd expect it to be....like Bartlett Tree Co. cutting down the huge pine next to Holland Auditorium on Proctor's Earth Day.
We had assembly out doors in 90 degrees. I sat a little distance from the a manhole spewing steam from the boiler plant. Voices denouncing Dick Cheney were barely audible over the roar of diesels and vehicles beeping in reverse gear at the building site. A little later this e-mail appeared with good news from the Maintenance Department:
Hooray! The AC is on!
Few of us, I suspect, appreciate irony in life like Donald Hall. The former Poet Laureate of NH, and surely one of the world's great muses, Donald is a very friendly neighbor...living on the ancestral farm in Wilmot.
To kick off Earth Day observances, Donald read from his works as well as those of his late wife (former Poet Laureate of NH Jane Kenyon) in the auditorium last night. Ask what was the most inspirational event in his life, Donald responded "The death of my wife to leukemia." Who would have thought....?
