September 12, 2005.
I get a bit romantic about water vapor satellites.
Water is what allows life to exist on Earth. Surface water in the way of headwaters, brooks, streams, rivers, lakes, bays, fjords and oceans is where water comes in contact with the chemicals of Earth and the interaction is magical. Earth is a rock and without water it could never sustain life. So to love water in it's proper place on Earth is to love life.
People worship water all the time. I see it a lot in Wilmington. Beach goers, surf, swim, lie at it's edges for hours and hours in a culture that is COMPLETELY 'of self' in every way. Sun tans, strolling, skills with the surf with 'belly boards' or 'surf boards' or 'paragliding' is all about physcial competency mixed with emotions of excitement, danger and fearless pursuit.
If one has a chance to watch children with water they are fascinated by it. Part of the way we as humans learn about our Earth is by repeated exposure to it's physics in ways people don't even think about. With an infant it's a bath. Confusion at first, eventually setting down to a warm and soothing time out of the cradle or a parent's lap. As a child grows water becomes a toy, splashing. Splashing is a POWER. A parent cannot control a child from splashing. A child begins to feel power over their environment by extracting reaction from parents by splashing water EVERYWHERE !!!
So, I could on and on about couples and far away romantic places and what do they dream about? The beach. Water is used a great deal in religious rituals whether one believes or not there is still the 'splashing' quality that is life and sometimes the life after. To life, there is Christian Baptism. To death there is the Hindu Ganges. Water is everywhere in culture.
So, this is my water vapor today along the western hemisphere facing the east coast of North America. There is "Ophelia," the turbulence of the Pacific and the 'hurricane' over the Arctic Ocean.
