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Peter Shepherd's avatar

Hi Christopher, I really appreciate the work you put into this - a real mosaic of emotions. The Green Life of the filtered wastewater wetland is the thing that has stayed in my heart. After the dry sand and shimmering haze distractions of industry, I guess it's the actual oasis in the desert reaction, our bodies, minds (well, our everything) falling toward our survival and nourishment. I explored a similar place near me in Byron Bay, going to check out how the filtration worked with gravel and reeds, but it was the birds! And fish, and dragonflies, and a general soft feral buzz.

Thanks, too, for the whisltling duck. As part of a call to artists and writers to defend a place called Bimblebox, in Queensland, from a truly gigantic coal mine. I took on the role of representing the whistling duck, so now I feel a family like connection to this hopeful green sliver of Texas.

It was stopped, adani wasn't, I'll carry your images with me.

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Shannon Leigh Thornton's avatar

Beautiful, as usual! Your Kansas novel reminds me of William Least Heat-Moon's PrairyErth, his deep historical and ecological writerly excavation of Chase County. Also, it rained overnight here in Dallas. Not our typical July by any stretch.

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