Singing Water Home Again
There Will Always Be Water
Dearest reader— let’s dream big today.
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There may come a time when there is a story that there is no water.
(Its ok— that story won’t last very long)
This is just a story and some stories are made to be forgotten.
And we are in forgetting times.
When the strings tied to the past
have been cut—
not by your own hand,
but by one larger,
greater—
wielding scissors that slice through
time and space,
width and height—
still,
none of that matters.
Stop getting distracted.
Here’s what matters.
Life.
Plain and simple.
You have but one task: To keep life going.
To keep the story alive.
This is our sacred responsibility as storytellers:
To keep the story alive.
But more to the point.
There may come a moment when there is a story that there is no water
Even though:
There is marrow in you that must grow.
There is a mouth you must feed.
There is a plant who depends on you to leaf.
And so you keep the story going
because
Once upon a time you heard a story about a people who knew how to sing the salmon back to the waters.
Because
Once upon a time you heard a story about a people who knew how to call the water from sky to land.
Because
Once upon a time you heard a story of a man who knew how to invite good people who did bad things to the land, make reparations, so the waters would flow in the desert yet again.
These are true stories born out of our time.
You see:
there may come a day
when water decides it's not safe
to flow among us
and she made hide.
Remember:
this will be temporary.
For even Water may fall under the spell of not enough.
And then it will be your time
To sing the waters home.
To sing the waters to life.
To sing life back into being
But how will you know if you don’t know the stories?
If the songs don’t flow within you?
How will you keep the story (of life that is) alive?
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