The Texture of the Water in You Is Mirrored by the Texture of the Water You Are In

After I got my blinding flash of insight that when you paddle you are evoking the texture of water you want, I spent a lot of time on the water just playing. Instead of thinking all the usual stuff paddlers are taught to focus on, I just thought about the texture of the water and nothing else. Wow. And this is what I found: my texture—the texture of the water in me—mirrored the texture I was evoking. Now I have to say that this in itself is the most astonishing meditation I have ever done or imagined. And if you are doing it on a beautiful little backwater or splendiferous lake or alligator-filled bayou, even better. But this is also what led me to use our sense of the texture of water as another way to think about and bear witness to our own selves. What is the texture of the water in you?