This week I treated myself to the film version of Marjorie Rawlings' The Yearling. It resonated strongly with me because I visited the wetlands and oak forests of Florida only a year before. As with the book itself, the film reminded me that humans want to make improvements - that is part of our nature. Pa and Jody dream of building a well so Ma can have fresh water "right there near my door and I will not have to walk to it anymore! Imagine."

"What pioneers dreamed of, we have today. What we dream of, they had yesterday," I overheard someone reflect last week.