Water Wisdom: Using Water Wisely

Swirls in Jupiter's gaseous atmosphere and the Baltic Sea--NASA/EarthSky.org

During 2011's drought of record here in Texas, I created Water-Wisdom.org to promote Water Awareness, foster resource understanding and literacy, and inspire active appreciation of our responsibilities and relationships with our Planet and its resources for joyful, conscientious, effective and enduring Stewardship.

We humans have dynamically intimate, interactive and powerful impacts upon and relationships with our Planet, its resources and our local and personal environments

When we live from that revelation of relationship and inter-generational responsibility, we effectively support the Integrity of our Planet and its Resources so they can support us far into the future.

Understanding this truth shifts our perspective from subtractive and extractive to additive, inspired, dynamic Stewardship and conscious relationship with our Planet and its precious health, beauty and resources.

From working for the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon, I learned Resource Management is somewhat a misnomer. In reality, it's the management of human activities and understanding to sustain and amplify Nature's innate resilience, intelligence, creativity and productivity.  Conventional education often focuses on facts, without deepening our understanding of our multi-dimensional biological and ecological relationships with this Planet and its resources. 

In working directly with people at large, it is quite clear that in addition to their interests and concerns, there are gaping chasms in understandting very basic ecological truths and our dependence on this Planet's resources and its requisite health.  Expanding Awareness internally and externally encourages the adoption of practices and technologies that ensure Planetary integrity and resource sustainability: Stewardship.  

Stewardship grows from seeds of Awareness, good intentions and a Servant perspective: a purpose and vision greater than oneself and lifetime.  People want to do good for their Planet.  Shifting from finitely anthropocentric to Stewardship perspectives is a process of expanding and incorporating Awareness into the choices of our daily lives and culture.  Public education and engagement with non-partisan positive messaging are vital components of facilitating durable, functional relationhips with our Planet and its resources.  Hence, you will notice the only agenda and platform within my Outreach is fostering Awareness and Stewardship through educational information and resources.

In the active, receptive process of living unified Stewardship, Wisdom emerges, thrives and expands.  What can Nature teach me about itself? What can people teach me about human nature, understanding and perception? What can I learn from these interactions?

How can I contribute to the well-Being of Planet and people~?

Since very young, Nature and its wondrous beauty, diversity, power, creativity, intelligence, utility and forgiving resilience fascinate me... inspire me....renew me.  Equally so, our practical and esoteric, Heartfelt connections with it.  Trees, Water, Soil, Stones and Stars have esteemed places in my Heart.  Human nature fascinates me as well, inspiring continuous, useful, liberating life-long study. 

Water Wisdom is sourced from scholarship, gratitude, awareness and my exuberant Heart of Service.  Sharing Water Wisdom, appreciation of Nature and stewardship of Earth and Sky is a calling; an active gift in return for the amazing gift and miracle this Earth is.  In addition to my B.S. in Forest Science--(emphasis in Natural Resource Management, Texas A&M), I share Buckminster Fuller's feeling of "being an employee of the Universe".  Nature can always find work for us to do~!

Thank you for living and sharing Water Wisdom. Together, let's be good stewards of this Earth and its life-giving Water~  Anne Marie

Water flows over these hands. May I use them skillfully to preserve this precious planet. ~Thich Nhat Hanh