In Staffordshire, Shropshire, and the West Midlands, the movement of boats is restricted, because, every time a lock is emptied to move a boat up or down, 50,000 gallons of water move, and much of it is lost to the accompanying streams. In one, she describes the moment of opening the shutter as life seeking life: “When the god force within and the god force without collide and lead to the creation of something new” — as if we momentarily see what God sees.