i was afraid to look at the plans for pebble beach, but my friend john showed me on his personal device this morning, saying they aren't going to start til 2017 and they are going to respect the nature of the place. john, i said, 2017 is in a couple months. and when i looked at the computer simulation it showed a concrete beach where the natural pebble beach was. as far as i gathered from greg lane this is the only natural beach in chicago, and though they built it up before with massive limestone and pylons and girders, it was slowly reverting to nature. i guess respecting nature means they won't be destroying morgan shoal, which was one plan afloat. i wouldn't trust any plan the chicago park district makes after seeing the fiasco of wooded isle. one thing i will expect, we will remain at war with nature, though we may aestheticize our war.  
for now there is a pebble beach, and i'm going to enjoy it every moment it lasts. i have enjoyed my years of watching the last human concrete incursion gradually erode. the water has risen, the shipwreck submerged, the wall crumbled, and the concrete will rise again in an ongoing effort to control and block, to subdue and curtail nature. yet the water will rise. and as we have seen repeatedly in the end all of our follies can be quickly inundated and overwhelmed. in future nature will overtake not just concrete barriers, but swallow cities entire. but we are creatures of war and we will continue to fight, madness will prevail over sense, what kind of humans would we be if we allowed nature it's way?