Tip-Off #181 - Doing enough?

"In times like these, to have you listen at all, it's necessary to talk about trees." - Adrienne Rich, "Dark Fields of the Republic."

"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?" - E.M. Forster, Howards End.

During her life, poet and essayist Adrienne Rich stood among America's foremost public intellectuals. When she died in 2012, she had become one of the nation's most respected poets, known for dealing with politica…