PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 28, 2020
What’s happened to caring about the community, about strangers who have to pick up discarded face masks or beer cans, or about those who may be stricken with COVID spread by a person who didn’t know they were a carrier but failed to take precautions with a mask and distancing? Have we stopped caring for each other, or is it just the “other” who we don’t know or can’t identify? To use more precise language, what’s happened to our commons? We all need to take care that our actions harm no one, and we need to actively protect the commons that gives us all safety, enjoyment, beauty and a good life. ~ Arthur Fink, Peaks Island