This morning for some reason I’m reminded of an experiment I tried when I was teaching 4th grade at M.L. King Elementary School. We were planting seeds and documenting how long they took to sprout etc. I decided that I would put one of the planted seeds in a dark closet. I was going to show the students that the seed would not grow because no one was watering it and there was no light. To my surprise one day I opened the closet. That stubborn little, neglected seed devoid of my watering it had not only sprouted it had grown. In fact it was stretching its way to the closet opening. I was incredulous. I almost couldn’t understand it. I pulled out the little survivor. What was amazing was that the plant was totally white. Not a dot of green on the whole thing. Photosynthesis was not a part of its process because of the lack of light. However the plant survived. Its gangly appearance spoke life at any cost. It had absorbed whatever moisture it could find from the soil. It heroically sought...