If you take just one thing this week's issue, let it be that everything you could want — countless little everyday choices, say — can be made and grown not far from you.

Food, energy, and housing have been removed from the government's gauge of inflation, the Consumer Price Index, rendering it false — and irrelevant to most consumers.

Time moves forward, and can't be unwound. We can remake an old creek, but can never really re-create it. And some mistakes are best left buried.

"There was a great debate about who was the fastest in the school — Marvin or another young speedster. To settle the issue the student body briefly blocked off Vine Street and the two raced. Marvin was fastest."

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