When is a man destitute? Destitution is not being impecunious. If ever you are poor, you are poor of heart. If ever you are without, you are impoverished of spirit. When coins of kindness cease to flow from your being, then you are destitute. Wealth is not worth.
Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He recently finished his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.