'Pop' learned, I suspect, even before the Great Depression br To fold his toilet paper with precision br Pepsi bottles were saved for the ritual return of their deposit br Beer cans were retrieved from manicuered lawns on the walk to Mass br When the cans lacked the blessing of a redemptive god called money br During that time there was very little waste amid the extravagance br Of what my young therapist referred to as the shiredom. br The waste thing has something to do br With the fact that they were a community of Puritans br Who held a vision of a very cosmopolitan Christ br Whose face was understood not in the visage br of great Rembrandt's work br But in the eyes of the youth they loved, disciplined and understood.