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WATER MEDITATION

ā€œā€¦and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.ā€ Wilson River (Click on image for slightly larger version) Feb. 2008 At a bend in the Wilson River, under the footbridge trailhead, quick flowing water bottlenecks into a narrow rock gorge. The riverā€™s character, once loud and boisterous immediately becomes subdued and sullen. Though popular proverbs suggest that deep waters run quiet, turbulence and turmoil are reflected in the riverā€™s tortured face. In their Case Study: Water and Ice, Timothy A. Isgro, Marcos Sotomayor, and Eduardo Cruz-Chu admit that ā€¦the microscopic structure of liquid water is unknownā€¦ Figure 3: Views of the crystal structure of ice (a-c) and a view of liquid water (d). a) Along the c-axis of the lattice (showing the basal plane) with all 3 equivalent a-axes in the plane of the page and the c-axis coming out of the page, b) With an a-axis running left to right (showing ...