Weight of Water
A friend of mine in Pueblo, Colorado, recently discovered that we don’t have running water here in Sierra Leone. This was my response to him: “If I ever get a house in U.S.A. (which I still hold out hope to have), I don't want running water. I will find a way to get a well drilled. Running water causes too many problems: flooding, ruining carpet, floorboards, etc. such expense and waste. Not having running water is something I prefer; you waste less water when you can feel its weight: fetching it from a well, or carrying it. Water is heavy! Running water makes us waste it more; I am guilty of that, in U.S.A. – I waste so much water when I take a shower or a huge bubble bath.”
The people of rural Africa will never have a chance, nor a change, without clean water: for drinking, agriculture, bathing, cooking, cleaning, washing their bodies and their babies. How far can we, as human beings composed 80+% of water, get without water? We cannot even survive a day! And for the excruciatingly large population of human beings in rural Africa who exist on a daily basis without access to clean drinking water: they will not be able to exist beyond a basic human survival level unless through a water well: and then life will change for them – drastically, dramatically, and yet also subtly – for the future generations.
There can be no change in Africa until local people, all over the great Continent, have clean water to drink. This is a fundamental human right and a cosmic collective consciousness as well.
SSAAP hosts a Weight of Water Presentation Series, upholding our C3 principles: Connectivity, Collectivity, and Consciousness.
Connectivity, Collectivity and Consciousness
The ice cubes melting is indicative of our ability to be fluid, and to not remain in our own solidity. While we linger in our own rigidity, we stay cold and “ice-olated”. If we choose to remain in solidity, “ice-olation”, and rigidity, we cannot embody the consciousness that our humanity has bestowed upon us. It is only the lifeblood, pulsing through the fire of our warm hearts, that the cold cubes of ice melt and we blend into one another, simultaneously recognising our own collective cosmic interdependence. As we melt into the pool of Oneness, we can fully embrace the experience of our holy humanness. We are individually necessary to complete the whole; each one of us: a drop of water or a melting ice cube. We are poetically distinctive to each ice cube beside us; each of the cubes is rare and irreplaceable. Our differences and distinctness are uniquely embraced as we merge together with complete acceptance of our wholiness as a collective genus whereby we glow, encountering every global issue we are confronted with in connectivity, collectivity, and consciousness.
