#52: The Body (of water) Knows First


I love to be around water. I could never live in a place that does not have a body of water near it. Every time I go home, I walk the dam. In December, I paused and wrote down some thoughts while I felt the warm sun cut through the cold. I saw the breeze on the water and then felt it on my face. 



Water knows first. 


Is that why it is called a body of water?

Because the body often knows before the mind does. 

It has intuition. It is intuition. It informs our intuition?

A sense that tells us how we engage with our surroundings.

 

I stood on the dam looking at the water, wondering about the dark pools.

I saw a soft ripple, the tiniest wake from the wind 

and the birds on the water gave way to the movement, surrendering to it, yet were unmoved: 

steady with each lap of water. 

The banks around the lake had inscriptions on the land. 

Like rings on a tree, the marks of gradual and slow movement and loss of water. 


Natural.

 

Not like the man-made parts to accommodate boats. 

Easily identifiable to the human eye like a face that has been worked over by a plastic surgeon. 

Intuition tells us these things. 


Like the water that holds all our life. 




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