…t brown and reddened leaves. There’s no sense in trying to make sense of this mad, fractured world: some days all I see is the coming of a long winter, no memory of spring. But in these sorrowful times of broken hearts, broken social contracts and shattered dreams, might something new and nameless be seeping up through the cracks? When the fires have burned all to ashes, could something green and tender yet emerge, nurtured by w…