Roaming Wild

What a wild week it’s been with the destruction of Hurricane Sandy. We were fortunate to have dodged a bullet here in the Virginia Piedmont, sandwiched between the worst of the storm’s wrath to our Northeast and the massive snows to our west. The media pictures of the storm’s devastation break my heart. We should all do as much as we can to help those in need.

Sandy’s impact has also gotten me thinking about our postmodern culture’s relationship with nature. The truth is that too much of the t...