TURNING OVER OLD LEAVES in October
My morning walk still looks a bit like this. More colorful leaves are beginning to appear high in the canopy, and there are roly-poly acorns underfoot, but there's still a lot of green. I injured my leg on a run in early September, so walking is where I'm still at. Pondering Here is a matter which sometimes causes uneasiness to parents: they are appalled when they think of the casual circumstances and chance people that may have a lasting effect upon their children's characters. But their part is, perhaps, to exercise ordinary prudence and not over-much direction. They have no means of knowing what will reach a child, whether the evil which blows his way may not incline him to good, or whether the too-insistent good may not pre-dispose him to evil. Perhaps the forces of life as they come should be allowed to play upon the child, who is not, be it remembered, a product of educational care, but a person whose spiritual nurture is accomplishe...
