Today is World Water Day. What does that mean? Water is our life. Water is our everything.
Our world is a water world. Our existence is water. For millions of years we were only covered in oceans, no land in sight.
We look out over the oceans from our place on land and see nothing but endless water, water that we cannot drink. However, underneath is more life than we can even imagine. It is filled with species that seem to alien to us just swimming around. The manta rays with their perfectly adapted bodies that glide so elegantly through the water. The beautiful and delicate seahorses wrapping themselves among the seaweed. What act of nature created such beauty? Things the most imaginative among us would struggle to come up with on our own.
I like to walk along water. I have found myself strolling along bodies of water all over the world. Along the Charles in Boston, the Thames in London, Yangtze in Shanghai, the Sydney Harbour and Yarra River in Australia, the Vancouver Harbour, the East River in New York, and many more. I’ve wandered along all of them, lost deep in thought. Sometimes listening to music, but always listening to my racing thoughts. How often have I walked past water that I’ve known before? How much water have I known in my lifetime?
We are mostly made up of water. Our bodies are bodies of water in themselves, constantly being recycled. Water is always on the move.
Even when it is frozen, it continues to move, if only at a glacial pace. Sculpting our mountains and valleys.
I listened to a podcast once on an interview with a water advocate. It was her goal to speak for water, to be the spokesperson between water and humans.
Today, I write for the water, but every day is the water day as it has been for billions of years before today.
Such simplicity and such perfection.
