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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cindy
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 Posted - Sep 04 2013 : 9:57:54 PM
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Tonight I've been thinking about water. Water is the softest element, it can support you with no effort on its part. Yet it's strong enough to wear away mountains. Most of the Earth is covered with water, not land. The amount of water in the atmosphere is always the same; it hasn't changed since the dawn of creation. Water falls down from the sky and evaporates and returns to where it came from. Water keeps the temperature of the Earth cool enough to support all kinds of life. What would life be like without water? Could you imagine living on the moon? What a stark and desolate existence that would be! Can you tell it's been a while since we've had any rain where I live??? Bless water, for water blesses us.
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
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jdf0202
Farmgirl at Heart
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Jodi
Kouts
IN
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Posted - Sep 06 2013 : 11:40:36 AM
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Water is my favorite element Cindy. Possibly because I am Aquarius. I have lived in places where I didn't have easy access to a body of water and I was always miserable there. When we purchased our farm a year ago one of my criteria when we were looking was that the property had to be close enough to ride a bike to a body of water. Now we live a half a mile from a big river and I am a happy lady.
Water sustains us. We would not live without it. Great post.
Jodi
There is something you must always remember... You are are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. -Winnie the Pooh
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AnnieinIdaho
True Blue Farmgirl
437 Posts
Annie
ID
USA
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Posted - Sep 06 2013 : 1:53:19 PM
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Yes, and here in the southwestern USA water is becoming more scarce. There are rumblings of rationing water for personal use in the Las Vegas Valley. (We already ration for landscape and in our development can only use crushed rock for decoration instead of lawn). Lake Mead is so low that the water level is below the intake and they are purposing building a third straw to the tune of Mega Dollars. The Colorado River supplies five states and Mexico. There have been water wars to a degree already, but hold on sisters...they are about to get very problematic and nasty. Stage right, exit...we are moving to Idaho where it gets lots of rain. I sign our listing tomorrow morning.
Annie
"The turnings of life seldom show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing." Edith Wharton, 1913 from 'The Custom of the Country'. |
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Katlady93
True Blue Farmgirl
361 Posts
Charlotte
Denmark
SC
USA
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Posted - Sep 09 2013 : 5:09:02 PM
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let the rain wash your worries away. water is wonderful, soothing, healing part of nature. we go to the Aquatic center three times a week, and i can tell how much i relax when i am there. it is so calming. Summer here has been weird here too. Really, really wet and cool the first part of the summer, and now that it is September is is HOT, and DRY, adn humid and just plain miserable.
Some dreams are worth the risk it takes to make them real.
Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footsteps on the moon. |
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