The forest, the waste and the pause: why I am carrying a handkerchief again


Photo courtesy of the writer
Photo courtesy of the writer

I KNOW a handkerchief cannot save a forest. But I've been wondering lately whether the small things we do might trigger something in us about the larger things we care about, and what might change if we started paying attention to them.

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