"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness"

My friend, ceramics maestro Thom Lee, posted this poem from Josephine Hart beside his pottery show at the Russell Day Gallery at EvCC. (To read the review in The Clipper, go here -- http://www.clipperonline.info/node/2253.) Thom is one of those people who is constantly adding to the sum of human goodness in the world.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness
in the world:
to prove that the thing exists.
And no matter how futile each act
of courage, kindness, self-sacrifice or grace,
it still proves the thing exists.
Each act adds to the fund,
not only because evil flourishes
and is most indefensively defended,
but because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life.
the hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.

-Josephine Hart

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