Snow Moon Islands of Coherence in and around Great Lake Michigan
Hello friends of bioregioning in the Lake Michigan and Upper Mississippi River Drainages! Downstream flow path for a drop of water traveling from Oconomowoc River, through Rock River, to the Mississippi River This Snow Moon has me dreaming up stories of coherence . One story is of the coherence of the river systems of my personal life story. I was born in and spent my first seventeen years in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, a small town between Madison and Milwaukee on the Oconomowoc River, which meets the Rock River near Watertown and continues southwest to meet the Mississippi in the Quad Cities, on the Iowa/Illinois border, where it will continue to New Orleans and eventually the Gulf of Mexico. I now live in Milwaukee, just on the other side of a subcontinental divide, meaning the water in Oconomowoc and most of Waukesha county drain west to the Mississippi while water in Milwaukee drains to Lake Michigan. This drainage separation happens to reflect racialized cultural sepa...