Paradise

A place or state of intense happiness and belonging.

How can I think of paradise when poverty is so common place in every city of the world? When wars rage? And as humans continue to cause such devastating harm to the earth?

I stand in this small wooded area not fifteen minutes walk from where I live. A place full with the reach and green of life. Paradise is not some far off ideal, it is our home. A place worth defending against the harm of man...