To pee or not to pee...

GET SMART WITH WATER:
Nature's death-to-life Phoenix principle 

By Bruce Wales
Gazette Columnist

From the ashes of its own death, the Egyptian bird the phoenix would arise in rebirth. Indeed, the phoenix was believed to do this time after time after time.

Arizona's largest city is named for this bird because it was knowingly built upon a site previously occupied by the Maricopa culture. The principle of the re-birthing phoenix is around us today. Though it is not heralded as the high drama it is, it is nothing less than life and death chasing each other in cyclic fashion.

I don't think we understand the amount, nor the greatness of the dramas that are played out every minute every day by nature's own phoenix principle. I question our level of understanding by wondering at today's take on a couple of mundane examples – peeing and nursing.

I wonder if the day will come when a bystander will witness a man zipping his fly after dispensing crucial nutrients to organisms in the soil with the same aplomb, or, sense of ordinary as when he/she witnesses a young mother re-buttoning her blouse after suckling her offspring with her body-born nutrients. I wonder.

I wonder if the average bystander will see the true value of both types of nutrients within the framework of today's social judgments.

Goodness knows, the baby formula industry has not been touting the natural feed system of the human baby feedbag, the breast. And others have even given supposed examples of the lethality of mother's milk. So also has the media been anxious to portray the penis-exposing man as an exhibitionist – dirty, repulsive and most punishable, and moreover, a scourge to maidens of pure heart and intentions.

Now then! People have been peeing as long as they have suckled . And, they have been, incidentally, supporting the soil life that provides the food that sustains them. Natural functions of one type of entity support the natural functions of another.

The decorum of today's standards is the result of a misplacement of emphasis. By appealing to false sanitary heartstrings, self-aggrandizement and pretentiousness, product sellers appoint themselves the judges of all consuming activity and set the trends in many facets of human life. This results in a tyrannical control of public judgment – a true misuse of the first amendment, if ever there was one.

Others have been anxious to denigrate anyone who would eliminate directly upon the earth. Why? Is it because this action violates some city code or the equipment has not been approved by United Laboratories!

Let's dismount the high horse. We all pee! We all have babies and they need to be fed. So also the soil organisms need to be maintained by nutrient swapping!

I wonder if ever the elimination of bodily fluids will be understood as both a transmission of pathogens, AND a giver of life food to another. I wonder.

I think we judge the ways of nature by unnatural standards. We pretend. Yet, it is nature's way to thrive on the many, many journeys from death to life, from feces to food, from cycle to cycle, from you to me.

Do we worship our inventions and technologies so much that we not only reject, but choose to forget Nature's waste-to-nutrient, death-to-life phoenix principle?

I wonder. I just sit here and wonder. For the water, worms, soil and all life