You Don’t Have to Suffer By Craig Nielson You don’t have to suffer like the hungry finches who arrive like Penitentes when the irises first glean themselves into cerulean skies. You don’t have to save the drowning in Bangladesh or stop the soybean plantations from creeping over the volcanic hills. You don’t even have to mow your lawn or watch the cirrus drift over the horizon like mist above the king’s castle. You just have to listen for the faint sound of cellos, and look for the shimmy in the summer maples, then start your way up whatever mountain may ...
