Two heartening sights

I drove over to the park this afternoon and saw two very good things happening. Stone masons were working on the pillar and wall on the south side of Old Hickory Boulevard where it divides Edwin Warner Park from Percy Warner Park. The stone walls at both parks were the work of the WPA, which put men to work during the Depression. Many of those walls are crumbling and need attention. Maybe they will now get it.

The other good thing was the fleet of white buses from the Harpeth Hall School I saw parked at the Nature Center. Any field trip that gets little girls away from their myriad screens and out of themselves is a good thing. Perhaps one of these girls will be another Rachel Carson or a female Edward O. Wilson. Sometimes all it takes is a spark-