Here’s a preposterous thought.
That we, homo sapiens, each and every one of us, are creating the disturbance in the weather pattern. Te Taiao (natural world that is and surrounds us) lives in balance and as with all life, in natural life cycles. We displace huge quantities of water at an unnatural rate from a balanced water cycle every second of every day. I’ve heard many a person say that we will never run out of water. That is true. Water never leaves the earth, nothing does. It all just goes ‘away’. Out of sight out of mind. The question then is, where is away? That can only mean that water then has to correct the imbalance we created. Therefore, water must rebalance the water table the only way it knows how. Where once the land was blanketed by trees and wetlands. The water must now fall on large tracts of barren land that no longer has the capacity to absorb the excess moisture. We are part of the water cycle. Water passes through our bodies. The water in you and I have known many people and places. The water in you may have previously been trapped in a glacier for thousands of years or the tears of a child, blood of a gorilla in another continent in another century. More romantically, elephant urine, Cleopatra’s tears, sweat of a runner or the spittle of a llama. The water in you has been recycling since time began. It has been many things and many places. In Te Ao Mᾱori (Mᾱori Worldview) it is said that all things have a mauri (life force) and all living things have wairua which means a spirit or a soul. Wairua also means ‘two waters’ or two waters of energy. Waiora which is pure divine energy from the source and Waituhi which is the memory water stores of everything we have done both good and bad. What we do to Papatῡᾱnuku we do to ourselves or should that be the other way round because there’s a saying that ‘hurt people, hurt people’. If you struggle to love yourself as so many of us do. Start by saying ‘I love you’ to the water you drink because you are largely a body of water. From one water being to another, arohanui e hoa. Water is life. Mauri Ora. Kō au te awa, kō te awa kō au. I am the river, the river is me.
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