Water Wisdom: Using Water Wisely

During 2011's drought of record here in Texas, I was inspired to create 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 have infinitesimally intimate, profoundly interactive and powerful impacts and relationships with our Planet, its resources and our local and personal environments. Understanding these ecological and biological dynamics germinates Awareness and conscious Stewardship of our Planet and its long-term precious health, beauty and resources.

From working for the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon years ago, I saw mighty forest ecosystems metabolizing natural and human phenomena. I saw care-full resource professionals dedicated to protecting and supporting the vibrant, functional health of the Forest (which, back then, was not what the media wanted the public to believe). I also learned Resource Management is somewhat a misnomer. This Planet is intrinsically designed to take care of itself--but struggles to mitigate care-less human activities within the scale of human time, purview and comprehension.

In reality, resource management is human activity management, which reflects Awareness and Understanding.

In working directly with people at large, it is quite clear that in spite of well-publicized issues and Heartfelt concerns, there are gaping chasms in the understanding of very basic ecological truths, as well as grasping our non-negotiable dependence on this Planet's resources and its requisite resilience (and forgiveness). Conventional education often focuses on one-dimensional, insular facts without deepening our understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of our biological and ecological realtionships with Nature.Technological innovation is a marvelous feature of civilization, yet can distort our collective perception into believing we can 'innovate' our way out of environmental troubles, or cleverly manage or cheat the symptoms of environmental illnesses.

Our Health depends on the Planet's health: clean water, clean air, renewable resources, energy, etc., not to mention the aesthetic, spiritual and healing values of Nature. Our Health also depends on economic vitality, which largely depends on environmental integrity. Expanding Awareness internally (individuals, businesses, organizations, governments, etc) encourages the widespread adoption and normalization of practices and technologies that ensure environmental integrity and regenerative resource sustainability: Stewardship.

Enduring, self-sustaining stewardship and an inter-generational ethic of environmental arises from Awareness integrated into all the facets of culture and a Servant perspective within government. When we live from the revelation of resource relationship and inter-generational responsibility, we effectively support the Integrity and Resilience of our Planet and its Resources. I believe people truly want to do Goodness for their Planet, so we begin by meeting them where they are.

Adopting regenerative practices and living lives of planetary appreciation and respect and purposeful Stewardship can efficiently sustain Nature's innate intelligence, design, resilience, creativity, productivity, beauty and beneficence. Shifting from a disconnected, short-term planetary view to integrated Earth-centric Stewardship perspectives and practices is a process...of expanding and incorporating Awareness into the choices of our daily lives and culture. In that dynamic process, wisdom emerges, thrives and expands.

We can mindfully consider our discretionary interactions with Nature:

• What can Nature teach me about Nature~?

• What can Nature teach me about me~?

• How can I incorporate more connection with Nature into my life and space~?

• How can I live to ensure the healthy future of this Earth and my immediate environment~? 
  

• What can people teach me about human nature and the relational dynamics of understanding and perception~?

• What can I learn from and contribute to these interactions~?

• How can I empower the Health and Well-Being of Planet and people~?

Across the World, environmental function and quality are dynamic, multi-factorial reflections of a wide spectrum of causes and effects. Accessible portals of scientific and inspirational information are vital steps on the path to water wisdom and Stewardship....to facilitate lasting, functional relationships with our Planet and its resources. Virtue signaling or pathologizing, polarizing, shaming, finger-pointing, bullying, politicizing,  magnifying, criticizing or alienating unawarenessare not strategies utilized by Water Wisdom to generate receptive Awareness and joyful Stewardship. Nor are dispensing fear, farming pity, perpetuating drama, igniting outrage or encouraging hate or harm. Water-Wisdom.org was created to be an inviting, positive, productive, broad-minded, respectful atmosphere for exploration, perspective, Awareness and Stewardship through a convenient confluence of scientific and educational information, resources, inspiration and gratitude.

Water is the Fabric of Life...

...and this Earth is common, unifying ground...for all of us.

Water Wisdom is sourced from scholarship (B.S. in Forest Science specializing in Natural Resources Managment from Texas A&M), a watershed of wisdom streams, agricultural influences and ongoing study and attendace of events, workshops and conferences. But the deeper Energy permeating Water Wisdom is my sincere, grateful, joyful, artesian Love of Nature and the Cosmos. Sharing my infinite wonderment and deep appreciation of Nature and integrated stewardship of Earth and Sky enlivens and inspires me and Water Wisdom. Being a loyal, caring friend to Nature is living my Heartfelt Love, Respect and Gratitude for the amazing, miraculous creations and companions this Earth and Cosmos are within and surrounding me.

Since very young, Nature and its glorious beauty, thrifty austerity, astounding diversity and adaptability, boundless creativity, masterful intelligence, unapologetic power, versatile utility, forgiving resilience and mosaic components fascinate me... inspire me... nurture me... mystify me... stir me. Trees, Water, Soil, Grasses, Plants, Stones and Sky have esteemed places in my Heart, as well as kindred creature friends and Spirits. Quantum Physics and human nature and health fascinate me, too, inspiring life-long study, curiosity and my equally meaningful and passionate work as Transformational Health & Lifestyle Coach, Gong Practitioner, Writer, Yoga & Meditation Teacher and Trauma Recovery Facilitator. I resonate with Buckminster Fuller's sentiment of "being an employee of the Universe". Serving a greater Good is Love...and...

Nature can always find Love for us to do~!

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

H2OXO~

Anne Marie

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

Research is proving Nature's healing capacities.  Most of us did not need research to affirm the magnitude and diversity of feelings, experiences and effects when beholding or immersed in Nature~!  But research that validates the spectrum of Nature's wellness benefits is helpful in shaping policy, urban planning, architecture, public access, corporate wellness programs, hospital design, conventional medicine, rehab programs, schools and education and so much more: to facilitate connection to Nature through its integration into our daily lives.

One of my favorite examples of how personally meaningful, powerful, influential and valuable Nature's compansionship can be is Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, the "Pastoral".  Enjoy reading  how Beethoven treasured,  revered, needed and deeply loved Nature... and wrote this symphony to memorialize his intimate life-long affair with it.

Been awhile since you've enjoyed connection with Nature~?  Nature misses you.... and is there for you when you're ready for profoundly restorative, uplifting, inspiring, healing connections and experiences.