i'm staying positive in my way. look—across the street, a destroyed garden and 800 trees have been killed to make way for obamaland—but directly below the sweet gardens survive. i can see both sides of the street that will soon be widened for the obamalandgrab, and the street that will be eliminated—both sides. there are no sides in nature, but we don't live like that, i know. still it isn't possible for me to separate the dogs and the living things from the destruction of the common world. i wouldn't want a site like that—those are plentiful, and their existence i assume is not threatened.