Central Skagit Library District

Twenty-six poems ranging from optimism to a less-than-optimistic perspective. Many of them focus on the hypocrisies of others, or, alternatively, on the author's own struggles of trying not to be hypocritical, which, of course, is always a huge challenge. Being judgmental is easy; being hypocritical is easy; the hard part is being neither, which is maybe the ultimate goal of life.Growth comes from piles of manure, and in America there's a lot of it....