we asked sara paretsky to post something in aid of saving the midway and olmsted's jackson park and she said her readers might find it hard to relate and i said i would think everyone could relate to the loss of green space, especially here readers to the green space where she and her golden retriever live and wander pondering the mysteries of life and the plots of stories and then silence until today and there is a post on her facebook page. so thanks to sara. we need help to save the park. somehow i guess she's right, that people find it hard to relate, even here, the people of action are few, and most of us i think belief that power and money are monolithic, and there is nothing we can do. it's hard to relate if you feel you have no say in the matter anyway, and it's a lost cause. but as i read more in this is an uprising, every one of the causes of civil rights was a lost cause, until more and more people found it their lost cause, and signed on. olmsted knew that green space is a civil right, and a living necessity, and, 150 years on, and on and on, we must fight for this right.