I’ve walked but this numerous times but today the absurdity of it hit me hard. A plaque to commemorate where the Garrison Creek used to me (before it was put into a pipe and filled in/paved over). Now I understand plaques for historical places, events, memorials - but when our last urban remnants of nature are only available to us as a tribute plaque to a time gone by we need to really open our eyes. I know it happens - you know it happens - yet it doesn’t seem to sink in enough to result in change.
“Big Yellow Taxi”
by Joni Mitchell
(Counting Crows Video of “Big Yellow Taxi” on YouTube)