Time to have children rediscover nature’s benefits - Jamestown Press

Time to have children rediscover nature’s benefits - Jamestown Press

Summer sounded better in the 1970s. I woke every morning to the birds chirping outside my window screen, a dewy chill in the air. I’d smell my father’s pipe, which he smoked while he read the paper downstairs. I’d go down to greet him. He’d make scrambled eggs and toast covered with butter, and we’d eat while the birds sang. The evening sounds were equally powerful — a dog barking; a motorcycle downshifting on some faraway hill; people out on th…