To the Editor:
Especially in New England, it is easy to consider October as a month of harvest, beauty and transition. In the Jewish faith and others, a time of reflection and renewal is marked as well.
A few decades ago I wrote to newspapers and started sharing the idea through flyers and notes of "Acorns to Oaks Networking" to highlight the gift of each person and nature in a forest of friends, growing from acorns to trusty oaks.
All people are counting in critical ways, whether for the census to assure services and funds (with a final filing date of 9/30/20) or voting locally and