The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

It was a box that could only have come from a shop overflowing with decades of “I may need that someday.” It’s not a bad mindset to have if we are going to learn to caretake our only planet a little better than we have in the past. Reduce, reuse, and recycle has become the mantra of younger and wiser generations who have inherited a boat load of problems foisted on them by us.

What kept me from throwing the box away, however, was not social conscience but rather curiosity. A sparkle of glass at the bottom of the box of junk teased the eye. Working my hand down inside the box an...