Water Guided Imagery - Wetlands Siesta Station


Let's take advantage of this quiet moment in the hammocks to think about the water we drink today.

Clear, some say tasteless, but is it? Taste carefully. You might taste a little ground - it came from a well. Maybe a little forest. A little cloud. A little ocean. A little whale. How about glacier? Eskimo or polar bear? If you taste very carefully, maybe dinosaur breath. This same water has been recycled over and over since the earth began.

Most of our bodies are made from it, as well as all other beings on earth -- plant and animal. It connects us all. The water you drink today may be part of a hurricane next , week, then sipped by a snake in a tropical rainforest after that...

Now, breathe in slowly. Breathe out. There is water mixed with your breath. You are contributing to the water cycle just by breathing. That water you drank in is now going into the air. Imagine you are rising with it. Floating up into the branches of the trees. Now you bump into a leaf.

Back down to earth you fall as a droplet, and onto the ground. You squeeze down between the soil particles, and feel this suction towards a root hair of one of these trees. Now you really feel the pull as capillary action squeezes you up and up the trunk right into a bright green leaf where photosynthesis is happening in the sunshine. Oops, you ooze right by the chloroplasts where other water droplets are being turned into sugar water and are heading back down the tree trunk to be stored in the wood for maybe 100 years

But you are luckier. As you jostle with the other water drops, you see a small opening in the underside of the leaf .. just big enough for you to pass through if you were a little skinnier. Ah-hah, so this must be transpiration! It's just tree breath, and you float out as water vapor, in the gaseous form. Now you're really invisible, and light, moving up higher over the forest and farms below.

It feels colder up here, and there are all kinds of dust particles floating around too. You bump into one of the dust particles and form into a droplet again. Condensation is sort of fun, when you get to hang out with lots of friends, forming a cloud. 0h, oh, you have this sinking sensation, like you're about to fall back to earth. Look out below! I'm about to precipitate.

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