Growing up in South Carolina, water was free. It fell from the sky. I often heard the metaphor: “You never miss your water till your well runs dry.” They meant taking for granted love and not really knowing the importance of people until they’re no longer in our lives, but I’m talking about literally no water, like that Toni Tone Toni song “It never rains in southern California.” The drought is so bad in Cali, farmers are cutting down their almond trees and destroying other crops. Drought fueled wildfires in the west, extreme hurricanes, storms, freezing, floods in the east, north and south, are all part of a pattern of worsening climate crisis.
Humans have polluted rivers with poisonous pesticides, herbicides and oil spills. Indigenous water protectors are going to court saying since the US Supreme Court ruled a corporation is a person, then rivers which give us life. should have rights of a person.
While writing lyrics for “Drifting Rivers.” I visualized beautiful flowing rivers.
“Imagine water flowing
Drifting rivers
The giver
of all life
Clean water is a human right
Not a commodity
Water is a necessity
Turning rivers into cesspools
Not cool
Warming oceans rising seas
Climate crisis…”
Peace and One Love…
Aria
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