Scores

To float. To rest with the water. To feel with the water. To be water. Be water, my friends, be water.

From sunrise to the following sunrise, do not look at a clock. Instead, remember your oceanic ancestors, listen to the rhythms of your body, observe the celestial dance you are participant in and take note of other bodies moving with you (water, animals, plants, other humans). Through words or image, express your experience.

Invite someone you love, human or non-human, on a walk with you along a river (either imagined or real). Carry a snack and a drink for you to share. Sit for a while. How much water does your conversation hold? Afterwards, make a drawing to remember your outing.

Make a drawing, without lifting the pencil from the paper, visualize a flow, inside or outside yourself, is there something blocking the flow?

From a stream or a river near you, imagine the water flowing through the entire river system, from the rain falling to the ground, to the river opening into the ocean. Then draw a poetic governing principle, as a visual representation of care, for the water system.

Visit a body of water in between different states. Introduce yourself by whispering a song of your journey to the body of water. Ask the water about their journey, where they are from, who they have met, and where they want to go. Listen. Share your interpretation of their song through whatever printable medium of your choice. Did they tell you their name?

Be an octopus, walk with your many arms and legs, wonder through the waters, counting every step, what do you see? who do you see?

Imagine being a droplet of water. Be H2O and other matters inside you. Fall, be in a squirt or just resting on a stone, a leaf, a piece of wood, plastic, glass or metal. Think about this and reflect your surroundings.

Draw, paint or make a collage of an imagined wetland reserve in your neighborhood. Is the water already flowing freely, or will it need your help to (re-) emerge to the surface? Who lives there?

From your place in the world, who are the entities, spirits, people, community, families or nature that protect the waters near you? What risks do the waters you know suffer?