There is this rock hurdling through space. One of a number of rocks between two infinite variables of rocks hurdling through space. This rock has been hurdling through space for at least 37 years as far as I can tell, and probably billions more besides. It will continue to hurdle through the infinite void and vacuum of space for at least the end of this article, if I happen to live this long, and probably billions of years besides. But, If I don't make it through the end of the article, as far as I know, the longevity of the current measurements of time I adhere to make no difference to me whatsoever. But I digress... (Who the Hell really says that?)

   An examination.

When water comes to life.

I love the Cloud Cult song, When water comes to life. The first time I heard it, I was a shamble of shaking emotions and tears. In fact, EVERY time I hear it, I am reduced to shaking, choking, sobbing, pathetic tears. And I like it. I love it. God, I love it. Here is one song that brings forth perception of the beauty and tragedy of death free from sentimentalism but full of love and pain and...real eternal concepts we can never understand as human beings.

   All you need to know,
Is you were born of water,
You were made of water,
You are living water, water, water...

We are living water.
We drink water. We live in water. Our planet, this hurtling rock through space, is water in approximately the same amount of water as our bodies are water. I am not pretending to be some authority, but hey. This rock...

The perfect combination of heat, light, radiation, the lack OF radiation, water, minerals, acids and caustics and blah blah blah...Remember the old sci-fi serials from the '50s and '60s? We were so enlightened with our probes and theories and speculations...Venus has an atmosphere of Ammonia. We're not talking Mr. Clean here. We're talking melt your freaking face off ammonia gas. But I digress...

This ROCK. Full of WATER. Right here, at this EXACT altitude from this EXACT sun. With this EXACT composition. Is full of the most impossible thing in the Universe itself that defies all laws of physics that govern said Universe...Life.

I have been over this ground before...The second law of thermodynamics. Entropy.

Entropy. Homogeny. The equalizing of all things.

Turn on your heat on a cold winter day. Open your door. Will the heat not work harder? Will it not expend more energy?Of course it will. Because that air right outside your door that is cold starts to entrope (verbed that, entropy) with the heat inside your house until you will say " For FUCKS sake, I an't afford this. I get it. There is more cold outside than I can afford to heat..."

But there is not so MUCH cold outside. Just an entire Universe at three degrees above absolute zero pressing down from the North of the planet and forcing it's way into your home. Perhaps you should have invested in a larger unit?