Sometimes Water Isn't Enough.

The Legend of Ponce De Lion had more substance than one thinks.


As many athletes and health providers have come to find out, sparkling/mineral/seltzer water is best when in need of replenishing. De Lion based his assumption on this find, mineral water. Nature's best in providing one's body with colloquial calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, zinc, sodium, nitrates, etc. These compounds naturally provide one's body with adequate hydration and effects of detoxification. Thus when flourishing your cells with mineral water, you literally cleanse and renew.

The rejuvenating effects known as a long ago legend...
the fountain of youth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Dduc4iODk
(Glass Of Water - Coldplay)

The Art Of War.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!
Through you we learn to be invisible,
through you inaudible;
and hence we can hold the enemy's fate
in our hands.

Sun Tzu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q064YiN28eU

(Paint It Black - Rolling Stones)

The Treasure Trove.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rOi8KwxgFQ

(OK - Mutemath)

T'was a very good day for me. Indescribably so, I haven't felt this good and sure in a long time. Whether it was lost and found or just newly found, I do not know. No words can possibly describe the treasure I have found.


My day began early with a drive. As I followed an unpaved road, this mountain range was blowing snow off its top. The sun was peircing right above it in crystal clear blue skies. It literally looked like the mountain was smoking. I stopped and contemplated this painted scene, and thought it was just for me. Therefore, I give this picture to share the moment.


My first mate joined me for the days work. At the end of the day the weather was so prestine, I decided to perch on the top of another mountain. This overlooking a gorgeous panoramic view of the ocean. I meditated deep in thought and quietness, while my first mate ran around exploring.


I could feel the sun on my face, I could smell the ocean air, I could hear the birds singing their return for spring...
I could dissapear within myself.

Decidely, I knew then I had to go to the ocean. It did not matter if I went swimming, diving, or just sat and listened to it.

I had to return.


I did venture in the waters late in the evening. I had been attending the thoughts of diving a shipwreck over the past years, but never felt the timing was right.
But tonight... tonight was the night.
I have dove several seas, oceans, ponds, and lakes. I have scavenged the basins of numerous ships. But this... this was something all to its own -
this new underwater world.


When I first started my descent, below me were mass amounts of sea grass waving in the ocean current. I realized I was not alone, as several eyes from below watched me enter into their world.


I followed the line out through the current. Looking far and wide, I would see peaks and dunes resembling a sunken ship lurking in the distance. But when I came up to it, the dark faded into blue and I realized that it was just nature. The anticipation started creeping in as the next looming structure came into view and then another. No sunken boat found and yet another dune in the distance. At closer advancement, I suddenly came upon the side of the ship.


It had fallen over on its side after nearly 75 years, and the hull looked as if another form of nature from a distance. But then my dive buddy asked me to come closer to look and I saw the neatest plants growing on the side of the hull itself.


I swam over the ledge where once sailors feet pounded, finding small tokens of beauty here and there.


Nothing could prepare me for the amazing structure above. Still intact was the steel of the bridge. Every possible inch and corners of it teeming with life.


It was absolutely amazing! So much prettier than coral reefs. Much more detail than previous ships. The ship itself was decorated like an underwater garden in pastels that abounded with urchins, anemones, and fauna. And the presence was not that of any other shipwreck,
she was alive!


When I journeyed back to my starting point, I glanced back at this underwater gem one last time. As I did such, the sun gave off giant beams that spread out into the depths over the ship herself. That is a picture in my memory I shall never forget.


To think that all these wonders can occur in the course of one day is truly a rarity. And then as my day was coming to an end on the high seas, I found myself graced with the fullness of all wrapped up in the closing of a sunset.


Aside from being such an overall great day, I am not sure why it was so important to me? It beheld something for me, something I cannot explain. But it feels as if something has been lifted, I feel lighter and I just get the sense of place and no words can utterly describe the treasure I have found.