" (The main character, Gus, is revisiting a river of his childhood which he use to fish at often.) But I saw that those days were long gone... "Water," according to the Randsom House Dictionary, has forty definitions ranging from liquid H2O to urine, with cosmetics, adulterated whiskey and tears in between. Poor Sisisicu looked like it was full. Of all forty of them."
This excerpt really made me appreciate the clean water that comes out of my faucet. Many of the schools my recent work has taken me to have filtered water coolers set up through out the school due to the poor water quality their facet water produces. It also saddens me to think about all those "filthy creeks(or other bodies of water)" that people/mothers are always yelling at children for playing in or around.
This book describes it best.
"It's a problem of semantics at this point: "creek" isn't accurate anymore, but there isn't a word yet for what creeks become once they die."
I am happy other places I have visited in my recent travels do have cleaner looking lakes and streams.
The pictures included are of an adventure Annie and I went on through what we called "a garden of Eden" in Atlanta. It was quite the adventure full of log passing's, crumbling castles, waterfalls, suspension bridges, and hidden entrances.
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