The poet had a point: even today, Arcadia's springs, streams and rivers nourish wildflowers and keep the hills and valleys green with stands of cypress, and groves of olive and fruit trees, well into the summer.
And, of course, there were numerous Michael Jackson tributes, reminders that many of Mr. Jackson's influences bubbled from the same rich stream of black urban dance that has nourished tap for centuries.
Near my family's home in upstate New York, I walk past tiny brooks and small wetlands that nourish the streams that replenish our drinking water and feed the lake I love to swim in with my daughters.
We don't have emperors yet, but we have a House of Representatives controlled by the far right that is now nourished by streams of "dark money" unleashed thanks to the gift bestowed on the rich by the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case. .
The pain of a breakup is nourished by an endless real-time stream of Facebook status updates, Instagram photos and tweets about one's ex.
And then, above it all, comes another kind of sound: American voices, crying out in English, "Look at that!" and "I want you to see this!" For much of the 2000s, President George W. Bush all but shut down travel between the United States and Cuba, and with it the stream of American art lovers who had helped nourish the Cuban art scene.
The koi stream warps around a little island holding a ficus tree, while the stream's banks nourish dozens of plants.
One of the best and most transformative movies of the century, "Frownland," from 2007, Ronald Bronstein's first (and, to date, only) feature, has just become accessible to stream, which is welcome news: while standing apart from virtually every current in the modern independent-film landscape, it nourishes all of them, or, at least, the strongest of them.
