We get our water from a well that taps an aquifer 400 feet below ground. It’s fairly hard (high mineral content), but it tastes good and it’s clear and clean. There’s no flouride, so I’ve gotten my first cavities since we moved here 15 years ago. It’s not treated, so no chlorine. We used to be on a different well that taps the same aquifer that got infested with cave crickets clogging the intact pipe.
I guess you could say we’re drinking cave cricket spit.
Really clear and clean spit.
<shrugs>
reading a book called The Nature Principle by Richard Louv (also wrote Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature Deficit Disorder). Your strip has nailed one of the zen koans we’ve forgotten: “we’ve become estranged from what makes us who we are”. Louv explores our interconnectedness with Nature and how we’ve become estranged, in both books. I think you should do a series on Nature Deficit Disorder. And read those books, though it looks like you may already have…