Walking for Water in the City of Angels

Walking seems to be a recurring theme I'm encountering today. Think it's a message? Yep, me too. But here's some news for you folks in L.A. There's going to be a "Walk for Water" event on March 22, 2009. For the press release and more information about this awareness raising event, click on the links below:

http://www.marchforwater.com/marchforwater/March_for_Water.html

http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/t/5985/content.jsp?content_KEY=5365

For those of you who don't live in Los Angeles and won't be able to get involved with this event, you can still read up on it and make the switch to tap water from bottled water, if you haven't already. Stainless bottles are extremely durable and can be refilled and cleaned over and over again. No chemicals leaching into your water from the breakdown of toxins in plastic bottles and no landfill pile-ups from discarded water bottles. If you need to filter out unpleasant tastes or odors in your water, there are plenty of companies out there that have been manufacturing filtration systems for years. I use a Brita system and have two stainless steel water bottles I fill all day long. Make sure your water bottle is not plastic-lined. I've seen a few stores trying to pawn these off on partially-aware consumers, but your water is still coming into contact with plastic, which may or may not be one of the safer types of plastics to use.

While you're walking with your snazzy stainless steel water bottle clipped to your belt, chant this Navajo prayer and embrace the beauty all around you.

"In Beauty may you walk.
All day long may you walk.
Through the returning seasons may you walk.
On the trail marked with pollen may you walk.
With grasshoppers about your feet may you walk.
With dew about your feet may you walk.

With Beauty may you walk.
With Beauty before you, may you walk.
With Beauty behind you, may you walk.
With Beauty above you, may you walk.
With Beauty below you, may you walk.
With Beauty all around you, may you walk.

In old age wandering on a trail of Beauty,
lively, may you walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of Beauty,
living again, may you walk.
It is finished in Beauty.
It is finished in Beauty."

Navajo Chant

Editor of AGNADL