Wonderoom

Water.

Clear, theoretically tasteless substance that pours so freely from our taps. Or not so freely from our favorite bottled water company. A simple compound that the corporate mind has turned into a multi-billion dollar industry. Humble car cleaner and toliet flusher. A little over a week without it and we’re dead.

Woke up this morning feeling fuzzy headed. Tired. Out of it. This annoyed me to no end because I’d been especially healthy the day before: no scotch, minimal chocolate, exercise, blah blah. My mistake? Not enough water. Here’s a chart:

I found it in a park ranger bathroom. Park rangers are always having to remind people to bring enough water on their excursions, so it makes sense that they would have some sort of water monitoring system. A little tricky in the woods, I think. Bring a jar?

In our solar system, Earth alone has surface water. Astronomers seem to always be looking for it, however. Mars apparently had it at one point. Europa might have it somewhere in it’s depths. Here on Earth we have it brazenly out in the open…dissolving everything in sight. Theory has it that much of our water came from comet collisions in the early days. Days when our planet was still so hot that H2O existed only in vapor form. A hot, cloudless, and yet very humid Earth.

One day, a few billion years ago, the Earth cooled to the point where clouds began to condense in the sky. Next thing you know…oceans, rivers, lakes. And in the murky depths life began. In the bible God created a firmament type thing that separated the waters. As far as I can tell the firmament was a sort of upside-down crystal bowl with water above, water below, and an air pocket in between. What the hell were they thinking …building a Tower of Babel! You poke a hole in the sky and let all the water out…bad idea.

Anyway, not long ago I sat on the edge of the Pacific thinking…there she is…the mother of us all. The Ocean…separate only because we have names for the different sections but essentially all one thing. During the time of Pangaea, it was even more one thing. I can go anytime I like, turn on the faucet and drink the origin of us all.