the color of water

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There have been countless messages of water in the last week. Garlic and sapphires in the mud (T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets), silence, or music, and the river - the Blue Nile, the Tigris, to name a few -

Every object and being in the universe is a jar
overfilled with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris
that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful
spills and makes the earth more shining,
as though covered in satin.

.................................................- Rumi, from The Gift of Water

I think we don't believe it, those words. Or many don't, and that's why we're in such trouble. But you know what? I believe.

It's just so hard to see sometimes. Like now, in a ravaged island in the Caribbean. Water water all around and not a drop to drink. But look how the water flows from every direction toward that point, to cover it with love and healing.

Anyway, the water flows, but still Nature and men rage, do wild and destructive things, we say stupid things.

GO WITH MUDDY FEET

When you hear dirty story
wash your ears.
When you see ugly stuff
wash your eyes.
When you get bad thoughts
wash your mind
and
Keep your feet muddy.

.....................................- Nanao Sakaki

I made a short slide show of water images. I took all the shots, except the last one - I don't have that capability.

Have a good weekend.

All images but the last "marble" image taken by the Galileo, courtesy NASA, are mine. Music in the video provided for free use by musopen.com - Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg performed by Free Tim with symphonic pieces on a professional Yamaha Midi board.

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