Saturday, January 25, 2025

 

ESSAY - WATER IN THE BLOOD

BY DONOVAN BALDWIN

When I was a boy, I used to sit in a tree overlooking Pensacola Bay, in Florida, and imagine the water I was seeing touching every foreign shore I could imagine, and some I couldn't.

As I heard U.S. Navy sailors speak of lands they had visited, read stories of pirates on the Spanish Main, saw movies such as "South Pacific", or heard of great explorations to the poles, as well as those of discovery from Europe to the "New World", I thought of the water before me, being the very same water spoken of in all those tales and all that history.

I even imagined the water vapor being drawn into the sky, gathering as clouds, and returning as rain. The nuns told us that our blood was like seawater, and I, a boy, marveled at my, our, connections...to the ends of the Earth, and to each other.

I'm human...mostly. I understand anger and disagreement on issues processes and procedures. I even understand fighting for self-defense, or self-protection. Even though I spent years as a soldier ready to defend my family, my country, my beliefs, I don't understand how, we, as connected and interlinked as we are, can hate and fight just because we don't agree on something.

I guess that's "in the blood"...maybe...but, I prefer to think that brotherhood and kinship is there, and, as they say, blood, and kinship, is thicker than water.

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