Good Walls...

     While walking up the hill from the Alcazar in Segovia, Spain I made my way along a wall that keeps the pedestrians from a long fall. A little further along was a wall with a lovely vine cascading down it. Each was built for protection of one sort or the other. Neither one of them was a negative object. They were not the Berlin Wall or a wall between Mexico and the United States or a wall dividing Jerusalem. The difference had little to do with construction and more to do with intent. Some are there to protect and others to divide. Sandburg wrote that "good fences make good neighbors". I tell you that dividing walls destroy neighborliness.