Restoring Wonder - Christmas Eve 2017
It happened one spring day on a school camping trip. I was hiking with the kids and another adult chaperone, and I saw a stand of yellow wildflowers growing in a clearing. “I wonder what flower that is?” My fellow chaperone pulled out his smart phone and said, “Let’s find out.”and within seconds we learned that what we were looking at was solidago, of the aster family, more commonly known as goldenrod. I have often wondered if for me this moment marked the end of age: the ag