Attending Church in Muir Woods

    This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters. This land was made for you and me. — “This Land is Your Land,” by Woody Guthrie   MUIR WOODS, MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA — Woody Guthrie’s fabled song should be our National Anthem. Enough already with bombs bursting in air and the rockets’ red glare. Woody’s song stubbornly remained an earworm as my Beautiful Mystery Companion and I walked the nearly silent redwood forest of this 558-acre enclave, about a dozen miles north...

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