GRAB-BAG 5 5.
City officials are in a proud and unique position.
They have the ability in their hands to affect community spirit, and, thereby, social attitudes as a whole. You will not care about your city, because there is nothing to care about. Perhaps there is some vacant lot, some abandoned place, where a few weeds grow, if not some tough garden plant surviving the razing of some old home which, once beloved, fell upon hard times, gave in to the grayness, fell to the bulldozer. And in the midst of the gray, then, you see that some golden dandelion blooms, or a scarlet geranium struggles to greet you, growing between chunks of broken concrete. It is this, as an oasis or fountain of hope, that beauty in our lives serves.