View from the North 40: Like water for thought processes

“It is water, in every form and at every scale, that saturates the mind. All the water that will ever be is, right now.” — National Geographic, October 1993

Here in north-central Montana this year, we are celebrating every rare tenth of an inch of rain wrung from the sky, not enough to fill our waterways or make dry grasslands green, maybe only enough really to grow mosquitoes to any degree.

But in County Kerry, Ireland, which has thus far in 2021 received almost 34 inches of rain, three boys vacationing with family to The Glen Pier along the Atlantic shore found a bottle with a me...