Hydration

There is nothing as good a hydration for an overall feeling of freshness.  Already after three days I’m starting to feel fresher.  I’m going to the loo less, I’m looking foward to each glass.  I think the water is sitting in my stomach for less time.  Those, I take, as good signs.  The things I imagine drinking a month of 8 glasses will do for me are: sleeping better, more energy, better skin, better digestion.  Those are all sited at the positive side effects anyway.  Its too early to really know, yet, of course what is happening inside by I like to imagine, as I go the good that is happening.  I see though my skin and into each cell and imagine each and every one of the millions in my body feeling that much fuller, plumper, more easily doing the things cells do.  Respire, live, get about being part of my body.  i imagine the life force within me getting stronger and lighter and denser.  The water that is coming in is helping all of that.  There is nothing in the world more basic a need that water.  We will die without it faster than we will die without anything else.  Food of course being the next thing.  Then shelter, then love.  Yet we spend one hell of a lot more time worrying about those other things in our life than water.  We also don’t seem to pay too much attention to the quaility of our water.  Is it full of chorline, floride, iodine.  All of those things of course have good side effects, but they also have terrible side effects.  Ones that are easy for people to ignore.  They are cheap and have fast noticeable effects.  But while fluride is great for making the life of teeth longer and easily administered in water, it doesn’t do great things for the rest of our bodies.  Every cell have to deal with it as a chemical.  When we become over run with chemicals our bodies have to store more fat, when we have to store more fat our systems become slower, more sluggish.  Fine is floride was the only chemical we ingested, but now that we have thousands more than our bodies no what to do with they all play a part in general loss of vitality.  So I’m drinking rain water.  Clear, crisp, rain water.  Nothing added.  Each cell can swim in the purity of it.  They can repair themselves. They can relax.  They can calm down and feel the beautiful, fresh feeling of total hydration.

The house by the beach

About 10 years ago, around the time when I started my ‘year of the body’ G and I bought an old bach by the beach.  It was kind of madness.  It was about 4 hours drive from Alk, down a very windy, gravel road.  The house itself had very limited amenities.  A long drop, a water tank for water.  There were even places in the walls where you could see the outside.  But the instant we saw it, we fell in love with it.  It was on a very overgrown plot of land nestled behind I dune.  You can’t see the sea from the house, but you can hear it, smell it, feel it and that’s what mattered to us.  We paid about $50k for it and most people thought we had gone starkers.  But we loved it then and we love it even more now.  It all done up.  We dug in a septic tank, put in an outside bath, added a bedroom on top for our bedroom and its become a wee haven for us.  I love going there alone and with friends.  We often find that we’ll be there for a month and have half a dozen different visitors.  And because its so out of the way, poeple always stay for at least three or four days, and its not unheard of for people to stay a couple of weeks.  We’ve had poeple write books, recover from operations, honeymoon, make babies, mourn losses.  its a house for all of that.  We bought it just at the time when bying a batch had become out of fashion.  Renting someone elses had become much more popular.  But we wanted a project, an act of love to create together, a family history to make.  Looking back it has become all of that and more.  It all started the day I started drinking 8 glasses of water.  We were walking along Palm beach on the cold scruffy day that it was, and said, what do you think about buying a wee batch by the sea somewhere?  Really remote.  Love it, was G’s reply.  And so it was.  We went on a road trip a couple months later and within a year we had our wee darling.

Water

The first day of the month of water in the year of the body.  So far so good.  I’ve got a tally on the blackboard which I studiously mark up with each glass.  Graeme has handed me one glass, so I know he’s behind me.  His support, of course being one of the most important aspects of me completely my year.  I can see by the end of the year that not only will I have a freer, cleaner, better feeling body, I’ll have a deeper relationship with G.  That only is worth doing it for.  I guess it makes sense, thinking that less pains, more rest, more enjoyment is going to lead to better relations.  The only noticeable difference I feel in already is that I need to pee a lot more.  And that I used to think that I drank a lot more water than I thought I did.  I had it in my mind that 8 glasses a water a day would be childs play, becuase I already almost did that anyway, but I haven’t peed this much is such a long time, I’m sure I haven’t been doing my water studiuosly at all.