GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1809
“About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While some one else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.”
(the beginning of the poem “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden, 1907-1973)
GAS PRICES
On Christmas Day 2020, the price of gas in Drayton was $1.999; on Christmas Day 2021 it was $3.0…