If Sundays are cliché, Mondays ambiguous and Tuesdays metaphorical, then I suppose Wednesdays are reserved for irony.
A water tower provides much needed fresh water to a thirsty populous, right up until it collapses under its own weight and lands on several members of the life force it has been sustaining. This very event recently occurred in a large midwestern city suburb.
The odds of getting struck by lightning, bitten in half by a shark, attacked by a mule or crushed by a vending machine are all far greater to most, but those statistics have changed to 100% for several unlucky people who happened to be standing in the wrong place in exactly the right time.
Of course we all know the potential dangers of water and how powerfully unhealthy too much of it at any one time can be. Flash floods wash people away and destroy entire towns from time to time, too much rain will destroy acres of food crops, and toppling water towers will not think twice about crushing anything under them.
But just like the blood running through the rivers and channels in our bodies, without it we die. Better yet, we wouldn't be here in the first place. Our reliance on this world's circulatory system has a potentially harmful price if not properly respected. It would serve us well to remember that when standing in the shadows of a water tower.
Today I jazz my hands to get my circulatory system pumping adequately. Join me if you wish, just don't topple under your own weight.
Day two-hundred and twelve complete.
A water tower provides much needed fresh water to a thirsty populous, right up until it collapses under its own weight and lands on several members of the life force it has been sustaining. This very event recently occurred in a large midwestern city suburb.
The odds of getting struck by lightning, bitten in half by a shark, attacked by a mule or crushed by a vending machine are all far greater to most, but those statistics have changed to 100% for several unlucky people who happened to be standing in the wrong place in exactly the right time.
Of course we all know the potential dangers of water and how powerfully unhealthy too much of it at any one time can be. Flash floods wash people away and destroy entire towns from time to time, too much rain will destroy acres of food crops, and toppling water towers will not think twice about crushing anything under them.
But just like the blood running through the rivers and channels in our bodies, without it we die. Better yet, we wouldn't be here in the first place. Our reliance on this world's circulatory system has a potentially harmful price if not properly respected. It would serve us well to remember that when standing in the shadows of a water tower.
Today I jazz my hands to get my circulatory system pumping adequately. Join me if you wish, just don't topple under your own weight.
Day two-hundred and twelve complete.
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