Bags of Water
(not because one didn't already know it)

Hydration:
The Human Brain is 75% water.
Moderate dehydration will cause headaches and even dizziness.
Hydration regulates body temperature.
Allows the immune system to function well.
Mediates nutrient & oxygen transport to every cell in the body.
Assists the body's absorption of nutrients.
Mediates removal of wastes.

Water:
Facilitates conversion of ingested foods into energy.
Protects and cushions vital organs.
Cushions joints.
Muscles are 75% water.
Bones are 22% water.

Water to else ratio in the body mirrors the water to else ratio of Earth.

Thoughtful Watching

apologies to U2-
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2740245

colbert on bush jr.-
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879

the bomb-
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7278951069225366106

bus uncle-
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2158402221665434053&q=bus+uncle

Insubstantiality

The urge to write billows, like a thunderhead borne aloft on the convective currents of a southwestern desert afternoon in late June. Amorphous though it may be, the giant is impossible to ignore. It towers over that vast but deceptively empty landscape. Nature demands attention.

So, I must write, even though my mind seems a desert in its apparent paucity of formed thought and sentiments. Swirls of emotion urge the tiny, nascent, effervescent droplets of ideas – they are hardly with substance in individual aspect but cannot be ignored when urged to coalesce into the massive shape of a hallmark anvil. The cloud towers far above me; it reaches for the limits of the atmosphere.

A form whose significance is unmistakable, yet it is ever changing, ever mutable, whose essence can be understood in general terms, perhaps, but whose specific power and raison d’être vis-à-vis the supposed confines of my own mind continue to be ever just beyond grasp. How awesome the energy contained and how substantial the potential expression of its power can be, yet, when I reach for it, it dissolves, it is always insubstantial wisps.

Ah!