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Basins of Relations (Drink to This!)

(we used to flush our drinking water down our toilets!!!)
PlaNetweaver

We love our toilet. We always deep-down, wanted it to be ceramic, shiny, super-clean feeling/looking. But once we got tuned (back) into our local watershed, we just knew it didn't make sense to be flushing drinking water down the privy.

And don't get me wrong; I LOVED LOVED LOVED it when we finally broke through on the eco-porta pottie front (so weird to be using chemical loos at the Big Green!!). But really, we wanted home toilets like the ones at the Bronx Zoo, and we trumpeted that human creativity/fun/play/ phenomenal breakthrough. Now that the Bronx Zoo toilet is building code standard, we all know how deeply satisfying it is to have that aesthetically pleasing receptacle at the top-end and a really fine process for shoveling shit at the other (all in the fullness of time).

It took us such a long time to get the toilets right. We used to just flush millions of gallons of drinking water down the drain... And all the while there were whispers that the next wars would be not over oil, but over water..; ominous murmerings which (thank goodness) gave us a start; A Start...!: Phew; we started to realize all the big under-our-noses things about the water.... and Ancient Future started to roll.

It's about the water It's about the water It's about the water: "Basins of Relations" means "We're all in this (watershed) together!!"*:thank you Brock!!

To my mind it took a man who could dance; a Burning Man man, a man who knew how to play, really, and how to laugh, and how to plant and nurture and grow... Just like the medicine of hummingbird is JOY, which is one of the most powerful medicine's I know in the face of DIRE.

WE WERE IN THE FACE OF DIRE... that much we knew.

 *As Brock put it back then; “The critical head-waters (human brain) are in need of an ego-restoration project” and the “lifeboat in this restorative journey is our watershed.” 

AND THERE WAS THE TURNING (of the Titanic): “Reverential Rehydration Revolution,” by adjusting our development and water management patterns away from the “problem-causing system of: Pave it, Pipe it, Pollute it” to a “solution-based system of Slow it, Spread it, Sink it.” Thus came “water literacy” and the four R’s of “Conservation Hydrology: Receive, Release, Recharge, and Restore......”  With the natural question arising out of that Great Turning : “Do you know where your watershed is tonight?"

 

 

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Oct 30
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