Saturday, March 22, 2025

Quips and Quotations (Staying Hydrated Edition)



 




Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

--W.H. Auden



 

 


16 comments:

  1. I'm lucky to live between three rivers. The Mississippi, the Missouri, and the Meramec. Our water coming from the smallest of the three, the Meramec.

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  2. Ever since Jane Goodall did her water documentary I've been very conscious of water use, limit running water, reuse gray water, all that. It all counts, even just one person's efforts.

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    1. Boud, there's all this talk these days about "mineral rights", but water rights means much more to the majority of the Earth's people--OOPS! I shouldn't say that out loud. It might give the land speculator in the White House the wrong idea.

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  3. That's the second Auden quote I've read this week from who seems to be a very wise man.

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    1. Andrew, the quote is from the last line of the poem "First Things First". A man meditates on a storm that has just awaken him from slumber. Haven't we all done that at one time or another?

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  4. Now I know it's World Water Day, thanks!

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    1. Debra, I didn't know about the holiday until a few days ago. The United Nations needs a better PR department.

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  5. The holiday is new to me. Thanks. It’s raining here in its honor.

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    1. Mitchell, May 3 is Sun Day. Maybe it will have stopped raining by then.

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  6. Very true! This world needs both. As people, we all want to be loved and hydrated. Great quote :-D

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    1. Parched and loathed is to be avoided, Ananka.

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  7. Someone should teach Trump about water. May his son could turn on a laptop and find a site for him.

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    1. David, if Trump sees water, he might start panning for gold.

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  8. Hello Kirk, Ever since recent events, I have worried about the water in the Great Lakes, co-managed by the U.S. and Canada, but what if this is violated? I know that there are countries (and possible other states) willing to send large tankers to the Great Lakes to remove water, but this would be an ecological and economic disaster. And don't forget, Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes.
    --Jim

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    1. I don't know, Jim. That would take a lot of tankers, ever for shallow old Lake Erie. It seems just as likely that rising temperatures dry out the Great Lakes.

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