The history of water on this planet has an interesting place in our lives. My understanding of how things went down is as follows. The sun and all the planets of this particular solar system were quite hot upon birth. After a billion or so years as the earth cooled water was formed. All the water that exists now was formed then. Water is a critical ingredient in all life on this planet. Research has shown that it takes a molecule of water approximately 3 years to circulate the entire globe. Circulate the entire globe means, that a particular molecule of water travels and exists in every location where water is, every place!
It is a well known fact that we humans are about 75%-80% water; the cells in our body consist primarily of water. (That is why the eight glasses of water/liquid a day is a good idea!) So... the water in my body, and yours, has been everywhere; in every stream and ocean, up in the sky as clouds and in birds, in the blood and tears of mothers and soldiers, flushed down the toilet, bubbled up through clear mountain springs, in animals, insects, fishes, in loved ones and those we deem enemies...
Water truly connects us all.
The Demise of
Largeness
Dinosaurs seemed
to vanish
in some
cataclysmic event
Until someone
noticed a similarity to birds
Large, seemingly
cumbersome bodies
A few so heavy
their feet shook the ground
Yet somehow
elegant, beautiful
Showing beyond a
doubt
the physical
parameters of life on earth
A natural
grandiosity
doomed to failure
If, indeed, it was
Consider the birds
Diminutive
descendants of thunder lizards
They fly at what
expense?
Hollow, breakable
bones
Allowing them to
soar in godlike fashion
Cavorting with
rainbows
and hurricanes
Now the whole
earth trembles with our weight
What massive
global event
portends the
demise of our largeness?
Perhaps some new
creature will evolve
from our unduly
dense bones
to soar beyond
imagining
On wings of spirit
so light
No footprint will
be seen
or felt
at all
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