Water Welcomes your Quest…ion
‘From drop to gulp, splash to ocean, there are so many ways and scales of knowing, and multiple paths to explore this topic of our relationship to water…while bringing nature into clinical and academic spaces has its own challenges, the core of our shared work is to reconsider this relationship…to consider ourselves in more ecological ways…to recognise that our collective sustainability is in the hands of the oceans and great water cycles…and dependent on the provision of water and its waste services …and that keeping hydrated, attending to hygiene, dealing with the chemical plastic and other waste that passes through our lives and bodies, living and spending time in biodiverse neighbourhoods near waterways that help us and our nonhuman relatives thrive, being on or in water are all important aspects of health care….while deeper indigenous and ancestral ways of knowing waterminds may still whisper something useful to ease the troubled hearts and questions of busy academics, GPs and their patients…’
I found this piece and the description very thought-provoking. To think of how many ways there are to conceptualise water, our relationship to it, our communication with it, and what it means to us and the natural world. I found the last sentence in the description particularly touched me, reminding me always to be open to other ‘ways of knowing’.