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Trying to eff the ineffable, as Alan Watts, would say. :-)

So since my brain wasn't up for the task,
let's see if my heart can do better with that question.
According to my heart, awareness (to me) is:

💙🧠 KNOWTICING 👁️🌌

(When familiar words aren't working, make up a new one!)

Knowticing is the knowledge and perception of water on your skin as you
shower, and it is also noticing the water's multiple effects on you.

Knowticing -- being aware -- asks you to live and move slowly enough
that your shower-time is not so rushed and 'hoppy,' that it can't unfold
into a lavish outpouring of spontaneous thanks for potable water...

...and to 'seeing' a world with not a single thirsty mouth in it.
From Cape Town, South Africa... to Flint, Michigan... and all between.

Knowticing asks: Why shouldn't my lips feel dry, too?

Your shower-water can connect you to the thirsts of others,
and in mindful solidarity, you can carry others' thirst with you
every time you hydrate your own self, with ease and convenience.
And please don't let that overwhelm you in any way, because...

... awareness of a thing, does not dump guilt. It invites responsibility.

And invitations can be refused. Everything is voluntary.

Plus, there's an upside.

The same knowticing awareness that 'burdened' you with images
of waterlessness, and dystopic worries of Mad Max becoming real,
also reminds you of the genius that indwells each person.

It might be dormant, or damaged, but that genius is THERE.
In each person.

And so you wonder how you might say, do, or write something
that could inspire the genius in another person, and in your own self.

If a needed solution wanted to drop itself inside a ready-head, are you willing to be the mother-vessel that brings it into the world?

There are showers.

And there are showers.

Knowticing, being aware, is the difference.