𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗢𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗣𝗢𝗢𝗟: 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗨𝗠 𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗘, 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
Artistic Impression. Enhanced for visual storytelling. GCW © Grace Notes in Context. There is an active dichotomy playing out in the nation's capital. The Washington Reflecting Pool, one of America's most recognizable symbols of civic memory and national reflection, has become the subject of an unexpected controversy. According to recent reporting by The Atlantic , the Reflecting Pool, under the stewardship of the Trump administration, was contracted to a non-competitive bidder and now finds itself in a condition that critics describe as environmental and managerial distress. You may read the articles and arrive at your own conclusions. I read them. Then I read the comments. And somewhere between the science, the politics, and the algae, my imagination departed the realm of reason and wandered into what can only be described as a comic and cosmic dissertation. The comment that arrested my attention was not from a politician, policy analyst, or env...
