Change is unavoidable, evolution, inevitable. Transformation is a choice. When I sat down to write this article about water, I thought I would be writing about my love of the ocean. How a wave is water caught up in the energy of the universe and how riding that wave, I feel one with all that is. It can be pretty profound. But as I continued contemplating water, really considering it, it struck me that water isn’t just waves of universal energy. It’s rain. It’s snow. It’s condensation and fog. Water is an ocean, a river, a waterfall. Yet in all it’s incarnations, water is water: H2o. No matter what form it takes, hot or cold, calm or violent, liquid or solid, evaporating up or raining down, water is water. It never loses the essence of what it is, transforming from one incarnation of itself into another without effort or doubt. Water is the most amazing element on the planet. ES·SENCE [es-uhns] noun 1. the inward nature, true substance, or constitution of anything, as opposed to what is accidental,illusory I’m absolutely fascinated and intrigued at the thought of being like water myself. What if we could do that? What If we could experience external change, then without question or
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