A few self portraits

The cenotes were beautiful. It reminded me a lot of the springs in Florida but warmer.  The water is so clear, and I feel like a mermaid hanging out around the wildlife and watching the underwater plants grow.  Nothing feels more effortless than flying through the fresh waters.  The weight of gravity is off my shoulders, my muscles feel relaxed, my heart beat slows.  While my vision is terrible, I can just see the sparkle of light and shades of blue and green.  The water has an alien glow.  While go deeper the waters get darker but the colors seem deeper.  Some people panic, not being able to breath, but, for me,  I hardly notice.  My sense of awareness towards my breathing can go towards feeling the light bounce of the current against me and the beautiful quiet.  There is a connection to the world around me, and if I tread calmly, then I can glide through it peacefully.  Sometimes I sit and rest on the bottom of the pool to stare at the light breaking the surface of the water.  I wish I could share how mesmerizing it is.  Maybe if I could share how soft clovers are to rest on, how gentle air rolls over the skin, or how perfect the light breaks in water, people wouldn't mind doing the hard thing to preserve earth.  These places shouldn't be kept a secret, but have to be so no one tries to lay claim to it.  Through modeling, I've seen waterfalls with graffiti, cliffs with shattered glasses, and my favorite flower fields replaced with condos.  It sucks to photoshop out grotesque language and initials painted along the forest, and pull glass out of my skin, but that's just the destruction I've come across.  

For those that don't know, I volunteer at the Georgia Aquarium, and I take some classes there.  We learn about the destructive amount of human trash that goes from the dumps to the oceans.  Now that I've gone freediving in Thailand, Tahiti, and around the USA, I've seen first hand the corals bleaching and the plastic floating around.  It is a problem now.  Soon the oceans will be un-enjoyable and unlivable.  I have many selfish reasons to want the world to stay clean. I love modeling in the water. I love seafood.  I love the view of the ocean.  Besides the obvious detrimental health risks of the ocean and Earth being filled with trash and chemicals, I wonder what I'll have to entertainment, if not for the water.

If you never have tried it, I recommend a relaxing bath or holding your breath at the bottom of the pool.  Maybe you'll have a similar experience.