Losing the Love of Our Life

From Country Roads Magazine comes this excellent piece by Matthew Mullenix on what we lose as we gain Pizza Huts and shopping malls:

Baton Rouge has been shrinking as it grows, its green spaces winking out like tea lights beneath an expanding blanket of concrete. In the last few years of its three-century history, Louisiana’s capital has become home to more people than ever while less of a home each year to horses, hounds, and hunters like myself.... For many like us, finding a field of wooden survey stakes where last week we hunted rabbits inflicts a sense of loss immediate and arresting. It’s a shock akin to losing a friend, or a lover.