When my daughter was very young, I used to take that malicious paternal delight in suggesting to her that what she was drinking contained what was very likely once dinosaur pee. Bless the resilience of young children, I haven’t disturbed her for life ;-p but it did lead on to the discussions about the hydrologic cycle.
I brought it up again yesterday… “Do you remember when you were little, and I would tell you that what you were drinking very probably contained dinosaur pee”. Quizzical look. “No”, she said, so I explained adding “You’ve covered the water cycle at school?”.
“Over and over again,” she groaned, with a roll of the eyes.
“But with a something new added each time?”
“Yes.”
“And you know the water molecules are not destroyed or newly created except in unusual circumstances… they likely stck around for a long time?”
“Yes.”
“So your probably drinking dinosaur pee!”
“OK, but it is clean isn’t it?”
“Of course it is… you only get the molecule of water, not actually the pee… and donkey sweat, and…”
“OK Dad, I get it… I get it.”
Hello Adam,
Haven’t been by your website in a long time, so I enjoyed tooling around and reading your posts. I honor your animism and how your animist expression is fully integrated in your ordinary life. For example, explaining how dino pee got into the water! My kids got the best of my exploring as well. Now they are grown and moved to other bioregions.
And also, I enjoy the diversity of your interests and posts.
I’m working with Fishbowl to update and spark New Animism Info, and hope to have my own website up by the end of the summer with lots ‘o links to blogs like yours.
Best wishes,
Puny