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Nature---- from Aesop's ancient fables to Lovelock's Gaia---has always been professor emeritus for 'everyman' (and every woman!)
Here, a child's eyes imbibe a lesson from a wise blackbird, soaring into the sky---both beclouded by transient darkness AND sunlit by old, steady Sol----inscribing in her mind's blackboard a profound arithmetic formula: Mr. Storm + Mr. Sun=Flowers!