Our esteemed council member from the Fourth Ward would like to close Ninth Street to traffic and cover it in Astroturf. For the purposes of “milling about.”
The council member from the First Ward objects on the grounds that greenwashing is morally offensive and that the First Ward Arts District is The Arts District.
Beyond the stained-glass glow of the library’s windowed wall was a garden of medicinal plants. Purple bells of foxglove and yellow buttons of calendula. . .
This past summer, I didn’t run the Upper Green, the Chattooga, or any of my favorite whitewater rivers, because my kayak skirt no longer fits around my pregnant belly. That’s what I say to my boating friends when they invite me on trips. But the truth is I haven’t been on rivers since before my body showed its tenant. I’ve been scared.