The Simple Power of Water
Afloat and waiting in Bonaire (Photo credit: K. Walters) Do any of you feel a deep, tethered attachment to the water? Does your spirit fly highest when your feet are wet? I've been thinking since my last post about how to put to words what it is about water that seems to keep me driven and inspired. But the answer is either so complex or so simple that it escapes me. Suffice it to say, water has power in my life. Consider the following quote from Isak Dinesen (one of several pen names for Karen Blixen): "The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea." When has life ever thrown something at us that we can't handle with a good dose of hard work (salty sweat), a hard cry (salty tears), or a trip to open water (salty sea)? Is it any coincidence that more than half our body weight is composed of water? The Earth's surface is about 70% water. We are literally surrounded by water. I, for one, intend to explore as much of it as I can.