Where is Water?

Reorient yourself to a body of water. Find a stream or ocean, downspout or fountain. Water is all around and within us: the lifeblood of our planet. Water can be easy to overlook. Consider water in your midst: what flows to your attention?

WaterWalks are designed to reattune to water. Follow a blue trail as a loop journey toward a "confluence" through 13 ways of listening with water. Adapt this map to make your journey accessible where you belong. How do you relate with water?

Make Your Own WaterWalk

For a sample, visit this WaterWalk

(from Georgetown University around the Potomac River & interrelated WaterWays)

Below is DOWNLOADABLE: Make-Your-Own!

Materials:

• PAPER: 1 sheet of printer paper (works best 11x17).
• PRINTER (ideally color).
• SCISSORS (one cut).
• HANDS (eight folds).

Instructions:

• Print back-to-back (works best in color and 11x17).
• Fold as 8-fold chapbook (see illustration below) with single cut (scissors).
• Start at your literal or symbolic Headwaters and go from there! Adaptation is welcome.

TEMPLATE TO MAKE YOUR OWN WATERWALK

(adapt & reorder categories in collaboration with your location!)

1. Headwaters: Start Your WaterWalk
2. Indigenous
3. Architectural
4. Spiritual
5. Celestial
6. Scientific
7. Engineered
8. Cultural
9. Aesthetic
10. Geologic
11. Economic
12. Recreational
13. Confluence: Return to Headwaters

Adapt as needed, integrate more perspectives, and notice your art of attention shifting backgrounds to foregrounds: homing in on water. This is only one kind of walk with WATER.

WATERSHED

—EXERCISE: Trace your WaterWay upstream and downstream to the nearest Ocean—