英语翻译For my sons there is of course the rural bounty of fresh

英语翻译
For my sons there is of course the rural bounty of fresh-grown vegetables,line-caught fish and the shared riches of neighbors’ orchards and gardens.There is the unpaidbaby sitter for whose children my daughter-in-law
baby-sits in return and neighbors who barter their skills and labor.But more than that,how do you measure serenity?Sense of self?
I don’t want to idealize life in small places.There are times when the outside world intrudes brutally,as when the cost of gasoline goes up or developers cast their eyes on untouched farmland.There are cruelties,there is intolerance.there are all the many vices and meanness in small places that exists in large cities.Furthermore,it is harder to ignore them when they cannot be banished psychologically to another part of town or excused as the whims of alien groups—when they have to be acknowledged as “part of us” .