Staying cool in a world gone hot

Taking the heat, taking it and bearing down to it. It is beyond discomfort, it is a kind of disfiguration. Staying cool in a world gone hot requires change.

In all this, which is really not much at all, we forget we can be cool, we forget we do have choices, and what that takes is exploration.

Not necessarily exploring space, although space is a good representation of why we need to pay attention to the way things change, since by stars we can navigate. The real exploration is inside ourselves.

What we find as truth in this exploration, is seeing how things really do change. However it also applies to the external world gone hot. It is the magic that brings men together to do jobs like build a dam in the middle of a steep canyon, challenged by seeing the change they themselves can produce.

The limits to any exploration is that the deeper you go, the less you might possibly be seeing. The men that tunneled for the Colorado to be diverted were nearly a mile in the tunnel when they came to the end of it, when they saw that first flash of daylight. Or if it was night, they could smell that first breath of fresh air. It was here that no one could, absolutely no one was thinking, Oh, wow, look what we are doing...to the river, to the land, to our future...but rather oh yes, oh yes, look what we've done.

The science of production

Without a product, without production or the making of the product to be used, sold, shared, etc., our lives would be so different. It seems we are all involved in the production of life. Whether life is as we believe it to be, as we build it according to our needs and wants, or merely accepting what it is, according to how it's delivered and received, it is a constant flow. Constant as the Colorado River coming down from the mountains into a varied collection of tributaries, all reaming into Black Canyon to be met with another production--the dam. What life would be like without the dam is hard to speculate, since it's changed so much of the way life is for so many people that rely on this product.
Is there any way we can ever go back to how things once were, ie; pre-dam? Not likely. Even if we dismantled the dam or fed the river a different direction, perhaps towards another dam, once we have produced something, once we've made something into a product, it is what it is.
Is this a warning about thinking through whatever it is we set out to produce? Of course it is. But not by way of a blog named Water by Dam. This is only a space for mirroring the ideas we all share, mirroing them clear as fresh water from the tap...remembering exactly where that water comes from, how it got here in the first place...its value...water as a life-supporting nature-made product...