Bookends: a jar of spring daffodils and the pursuit of happiness.
It’s a chilly February evening as Meredith watches the egrets rise on the bayou against the setting sun. She compares our political landscape to the landscape of various trees before her. “A metaphor to learn to live together in the pursuit of happiness.” The news may flood our daily lives but hope breaks through like spring. “It always does.”
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