Sanford and Son was a classic creation by Redd Foxx who was not only a comic genius but a man ahead of the curve. The reuse and recycle mentality of Fred Sanford may have been a little off the wall but this was a character who did not have to have the latest and greatest to be happy. Other people’s trash was his treasure and he managed to scrape by, happy to live in his loosely organized junkyard. I have a kid just like Fred Sanford. His idea of a good time is to hop in the truck with me whenever I have a load to haul to the county waste facility. He is fascinated by what others throw away, always coming up with ideas of how to give a second life to items that catch his eye in the white goods and brown goods dumpsters.
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Kate Kew
In one of his well known illustrations, Jesus told the listening crowds of his day that a city set on a hill could not be hidden. His point was about the abundantly obvious: a prominent community cannot help but broadcast messages about its culture, in the same manner as beacons guide travelers in choosing what to follow and what to avoid. Ironically, there are cities of varying sizes today built on the top of towering refuse heaps, such as the infamous ones of Calcutta and Mexico City. The messages of these particular communities are overt but a great deal of the planet’s cities hold lesser known tales and county recycling.