The Waters

I am grateful for the waters that flow all over the curvature of the earth, from the sky in rain and snow and mist, to rivulets of rain in creeks and rivers and seas, to underground seeps honeycombing the water table below the soil. I love how all that water in our earth and our bodies makes everything elastic, full of motion, ever-cleansing and renewing.

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Permalink Reply by Helena Wu on March 6, 2009 at 7:00pm: Water is so unique. So gentle as a mist, nourishing, powerful as a storm blown by brother Wind or frozen like a massive glacier. Steadily wearing down rock, shooting up from within the Earth as a geyser, hot springs, thundering waterfall, blessed tears of grief or happiness, inner amniotic ocean. So many forms. One being. Touching all.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by deerwoman on March 9, 2009 at 10:51am: This is such a beautiful set of thoughts to contemplate. Thank you for sharing it.

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Permalink Reply by deerwoman on March 9, 2009 at 10:57am: As an exercise routine my favorite has been water exercise. I used to swim laps until the chlorine got to me. Now, I do aquarobics in a pool in the deep water and some in the shallow water. I like it especially because the water adds another dimension by giving me an element to have a relationship with that's outside myself, as I do my routine. The water speaks to me as I work with her, and it also informs me about myself. I for the most part work out in an indoor pool, but when I can take the exercises to a natural setting it is amazing how it opens up the experience even more, with the feeling of the breeze, the natural scents and sounds around. It is bliss. Water is a great exercise playmate.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Helena Wu on March 9, 2009 at 2:50pm: I like pregnant moms to interact with water as much as possible, especially natural bodies of water. It does teach us about flowing and trusting and not fighting the current. All this you learn unconsciously for birth. It is a relief for a big belly mama to float and be weightless in the water. She and the baby are having the same experience!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pavel Svancara on March 27, 2009 at 5:38am: My sit spot #1 is at the river. When I think about it I realize that it is especially my Thankgiving Spot. And only then Sit Spot. I muss confess that the most time spent there I am sitting in a boat, a kayak. And even it is about cca 1-2 miles of a river inside the city it is a very nice place for thankgiving. I like water. It is the basic substance we have.

I am convinced the the Creator is trackable in nature. And Thanksgiving is a great tracking game. I play this game. And when I find a trace, I would like to share it. This can you see at http://lednacek.net. Unfortunatelly the website is in my mother tongue. The title is something like

Kingfisher's leaflets on the divine surface

Here is a part of the latest leaflet:

Melancholic December afternoon, two days before Christmas.
It just stopped raining.
Such a gloomy atmosphere, exactly as in the picture.
Except the kingfisher ... :-)
That was not there, of course.
I do not take my camera abord wobbly ships.
So I had to sketch him in, so as I could better speak about him.

It was my long time wish, to see that beautiful little bird once more.
I nearly doubted that he still stays on the river.
Many times, paddling along the steep river banks I was on the watch for him.
He likes steep banks.
But in vein.
Up to now.
Suddenly flashed his light turquoise blue on the bank.
At the same moment he flies to a safer place.
I do not want to settle with just one glance.
I ride with caution forward looking for him and serching the banks with my the eyes.
Success!
Somewhere in the bushes on the bank shines his light turquoise.
Slowly paddling to him.
He lets me, but than frrrrrr and he flies away. I follow him.
And so we have seen each other at least fifteen times.
Before the twilight wrapped this nice light turquoise point in its dark embrace.

And so I am wishing my kingfisher good and safe night and thinking about his message.

And suddenly a beautiful parable emerged to me.
My God. I would also like to see him more often.
With less effort. But his tracks in my life are shy.
As those of the kingfisher.
He wants to give me the possibility to pass over.
The possibility not to recognize him.
Because he wants me to come to him freely.
I noticed several people up on the way along the river under which my kingfisher several times rested for a while.
But nobody took notice. Just me.
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Permalink Reply by deerwoman on March 27, 2009 at 1:09pm: ******** quote Pavel *******************
the Creator is trackable in nature... And suddenly a beautiful parable emerged to me.

Thank you for sharing this with us.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Walking Ritchie on May 23, 2009 at 4:49pm: water ----- we take for granted this wonder..... you want to know when you appreciate water? It is when there is none... draught. when there are no rains, when the crops are dying, when you are thirsty, when there are high alerts for fire, the woods are kindling dry...

Is there a more welcome sound then the first drops of rain?
Is there anything more beautiful than dew on grass in the morning.

The other side we take for granted is the power of water. Water in storms, water in riptides, floods, and savage waters.
Like all of nature, all the sides of water are to be respected.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by deerwoman on May 27, 2009 at 12:12pm: This is beautifully put, Walking Ritchie. Thinking about what it is when we have it and when we don't. Where I live and the presence of water seems abundant, people cannot imagine places like in China where there are millions relying on water than has to be shipped in because of many years of drought and a dry aquifer. It seems like if we appreciate what sustains us, it would work out that we would have more of it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Helena Wu on May 27, 2009 at 1:49pm: Yes, gratitude for all we have creates abundance. Scarcity within (of spirit, connection, recognition of blessings and love, etc.) is reflected without.
Even more than feeling what it is like without or with too much, is a deeper respect for this life giving element, for our common life force. I want to feel that we are the same and not that it is simply a "resource". All is dynamic expression of Divine Life Force!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by deerwoman on May 27, 2009 at 5:52pm: All is dynamic expression of Divine Life Force!

You put it so well. It makes a lot of sense.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by deerwoman on June 29, 2009 at 12:52pm: Thanking the environment at the seashore. I am offering tobacco, today.

The paragraph from Pam Montgomery's article that Helen had posted continues to stay with me as a meditation. (It won't go away! LOL) Seriously, the line I had drawn from it within the section below has become the missing puzzle piece that has shown up finally to pull together some very important questions I've had about my life.

'These elements which give us our breath, warm and light our way, quench our thirst and nourish our body are taken for granted as something that will remain. They barely even draw attention except in the dramatic displays they exhibit in weather. It is actually through weather that we have the most conscious experience of the elements.'

I grew up near the ocean. Fortunately, in the days I lived there, the beach was still undeveloped, so there was the opportunity to experience an intact marine ecosystem. That's the clinical way of saying it. For a child who had many of life's shortcomings to withstand, the proximity to a beach was a saving grace. I had always known that, but didn't grasp how that could be.

...'through weather that we have the most conscious experience of the elements'.

Multiply that several times for the weather near a shore where it's far more visceral and amplified. I understand, now, that the limitations I had was compensated for in important ways by the elemental quality of the physical environment I was growing up in. Lucky thing that I was receptive to it.

No wonder so many people go to the sea to be revived.

Weathering With the Elements

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Permalink Reply by deerwoman on September 9, 2009 at 8:10am: Had a chance to go out for morning exercise in lakes while camping out in the last several weeks. What a good friend water is. So comforting and supportive and embraces you while you remember that you are a being made to function very well in water.

Also, had some beautiful sights of the full moon light on completely placid lake water, and a band of sunlight shining on the ocean in the distance. Both scenes very magical.

Thank you to the Water for the many delights you provide.; ▶ Reply to This