"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."

[libby]

I was sorting through some mail that was not bills that had accumulated on my desk, and came across a publication from the company that supplies water in this county where I live in Northern VA (a county of more than a million people).  The service is good, and believe, me I appreciate that. I remember the years when there was not enough rain and my mother always worried that the well would run dry.

Anyway, back to the water company publication. I usually quickly scan it and throw it away, but this time something on the back page caught my eye: "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." - Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

Imagine that! A person from the water company who reads and quotes Loren Eisley, now deceased, formerly well known anthropologist and history professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Eisley was one of my heroes when I was a girl. I wrote to him -- don't remember now why but imagine it was something I read in a book by him that somebody gave me: The Unexpected Universe. To my surprise, he answered my letter -- it wasn't a form letter: it was a personal letter to me. I still have the book -- went and found it, and there was the letter, inside. 

[Palehorse]

That is awesome Libby. 

[followsthewolf]

Incredible memory to recall, Libby.

Makes me smile, too.

[libby]

Thank you Palehorse and Wolf -- reading what you wrote made me smile!

[The Troll]

I was sorting through some mail that was not bills that had accumulated on my desk, and came across a publication from the company that supplies water in this county where I live in Northern VA (a county of more than a million people).  The service is good, and believe, me I appreciate that. I remember the years when there was not enough rain and my mother always worried that the well would run dry.

Anyway, back to the water company publication. I usually quickly scan it and throw it away, but this time something on the back page caught my eye: "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." - Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

Imagine that! A person from the water company who reads and quotes Loren Eisley, now deceased, formerly well known anthropologist and history professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Eisley was one of my heroes when I was a girl. I wrote to him -- don't remember now why but imagine it was something I read in a book by him that somebody gave me: The Unexpected Universe. To my surprise, he answered my letter -- it wasn't a form letter: it was a personal letter to me. I still have the book -- went and found it, and there was the letter, inside. 

  I can remember years ago my shallow well quit pumping.  The water level in it had dropped below 28 feet.  No pitcher pump or shallow well hand pump of a electric shallow pump water that low.

  I had to put in a electric deep well pump set at 75 feet to keep the water coming.  But a lot of old wells in the old days went dry with the old hand pumps, especially when the leathers got dried out or wore out.  Remember how you had to prime them with water to get them to pump.  Or how much pumping you had to do to fill a horse tank every day or two.   So much for the "good old days".   

[Y]

We're seeing just how important water is this summer.