Fire in the Lake, June 22

Sun, and Water planet Earth

Fire in the Lake , June 22

Driving past St Mary's lake, the sun was glinting off the lake, setting the rippled waves ablaze with reflected and refracted light. As light sinks into the lake, life grows.

The image of sunlight into water, and calling it Revolution, brings one to seeing life as revolution. It can never stand still – it would decay, atrophy, eventually dwindle into inertia. Light mingling with water gives us life at every turning – a critical ingredient, besides carbon dioxide, is water, to the trilogy of photosynthesis. Water, carbon dioxide, and light - and you’ve got plant life.  Or rather, we have it now, after billions of years of evolution. Long before that, our ingredients were but atoms formed in ancient stardust – life is an amazing moving wonder, overturning the established order, setting the stage for continual change; fire in the lake, Revolution.

So I get home and see the door open to the solar water heater tank: I’m looking down now at "Solar Boiler" - while thinking of Sun light steaming clouds off the equator of our planet, starting the winds of water vapour transfer that support life towards the poles of our tilted-spin Earth.

(Tilted only to our orbit’s plane...or should we say corkscrew path, for Earth follows the Sun in a spiral, leading with the South pole, anti-clockwise turning (if looked at from the North pole) following a Sun that moves 12 miles per second towards the distant constellation Hercules. Helical path. Helios – the Sun.)

It does seem a fitting description of life, constant revolution, because life must be revolting against established order to stay alive. Light mixing in with the fluid medium of water - that most amazing of fluids that surrounds us (tastes so great!) - or perhaps to be seen as a cascading tumble of photons, caught in the complexities photosynthesis allows plants to build. We eat these bundles of stored energy, and further energy cascades throughout our digestive systems, circulatory, excretory, nerve, thought and muscle systems allow us to move with apparent free will.

We are the fire moving in water.

 ...exhaling carbon dioxide and water vapour on our breath. We are that linked with sunlight, always.