Illustration by Michael Byers
“Hold on to me.”
Kenji López-Alt steps off a crumbling concrete boat launch and into a watery muck. We’ve been talking as his four-year-old daughter, Alicia, tromps the marshy lake’s edge in Washington Park Arboretum. She’s holding a glass jar to collect Spanish moss to make a terrarium. But the allure of lake water flora pulls her a little too far from terra firma. She’s stuck in the mud. Right up to—even over—her purple boots.
López-Alt’s own hiking shoes are nearly submerged too. His wife, Adriana, helped him tie the laces back at home, since he was already wearing his nine-week-old son, Koji, in a
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