“You never miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.” – Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials Water is one of those things that seems like it’s everywhere. Until it’s not. Then it may be too late. Water belongs to none of us and yet belongs to all of us. If the water dries up, it dries up for all […]

Late last fall, I took a walk in forested bottomlands where the Sangamon River meanders through. Well-established trees grew on top of oddly geometric earthen dikes, now breached in several places, and therefore long past their useful function. A coyote hastily dashed across the makeshift, vague trail out in front of me, long gone before I could click on my […]