In downtown Asheville I looked in vain for a place to see the sun setting over the mountains. This was as good as it got, no fault of the setting sun or the mountains:
It could have been in any city. Not the fault of any one person (usually) but rather our collective myopic and self-centered vision of how life “must” be. It is hard to even remember and see what’s been lost in the process…until I go looking for a sunset.
Still Learning To See 
Joni said it best: “They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.” Watching her sing “Big Yellow Taxi” brings back, for me, so much of the dream of the 60’s and early 70’s. I just watched her sing this song at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t79hUuE2vuI
“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve lost til it’s gone.”
Thanks for the reminder, as always, of what needs “seeing”.
Yes, she said it all and sang it well even back then. Thanks.