THE WETNESS OF THE GREAT LAKES

The Miracle of Moisture, of wetness, of blue oceans and green rivers, of drinking waters and sodas, of washing water to moisten your lips and to spill over your hands, water that you can toss over your face for revitalization, water of turquoise-colored shining lakes in your villages where you can swim, water that turns around in machines to wash your clothes, smelling the freshness of newly laundered clothing that was washed in water, stepping onto beach sands and squeezing lake water between your toes, washing your feet anointing them in water every night before bed.

A vacation area of miles and miles of sandy beaches, sailing in the waters one sees kayaks, and yachts, and sailboats, and huge tourist ships, white puffy sails on ships you can see miles away as the whiteness in their sails means they surrender as a white flag to the wonders of the waters of the seas, surrendering to hours of relaxation as their ship sways back and forth like a baby's cradle rocking them all to sleep.

To be able to feel this happiness and relaxation from the shore as the boats go by and you see them sparkling in the sunlight and causing waves as they float on by. Being on a sandy shore, but not as a pirate on the seas stealing from other merchant ships. Getting the freedom of a vacation not as a pirate but as one in a flock of seagulls as they zoom down into the bluish waters to eat their fill of free fish! Being a Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a bird who is well fed and well watered.

Waters falling from the skies, the Heavens, and wetting the Earthly Gardens of Eden, doing a rain dance and tasting the raindrops on your tongue as they fall from the skies, like ice cream or popsicles their moisture whets the dryness so there are no more deserts. Deserts becoming green gardens where food is grown, deserts becoming desserts.

The wetness of whipped cream toppings on these desserts, as they moisten the mouth and we drool with our saliva. Licking our lips and licking our fingertips after eating finger sandwiches.

A green river that is an extension growing out of a blue ocean, no lack of moisture, always wet, always watered with a wetness that never ends.