mother did it need to be so high

the phrase "good fences make good neighbors" is first attributed to a robert frost poem titled "Mending Wall".  it's worth reading and considering.  personally, i don't think fencing people out or fencing oneself in are magnificent ways to live.  frost's response to the phrase is this:

"'Why do they make good neighbors?  Isn't it
Where there are cows?  But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.'"

the part about giving offense is rich.  there is inherent mistrust in a wall.  an absence of community and a negation of hope for our fellow citizens.

(dogs and squirrels not included).