Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Awareness is wealth.

I had that thought while I was walking the other day.

Just awareness, consciousness, attention alone, that is wealth. So I live in a high-rise building in Miami,

and maybe once a year, perhaps even less, it doesn't happen very often. They need to do something

to the water systems and so they shut off water for a day. You get plenty

of notice but it will say something like nine to five on Tuesday X, you know, X month and date,

there'll be no water. And so of course I put it in my calendar and I make plans to understand

look here I'm not going to have water at home today.

I'm aware of it and go about my life, right? It's a small inconvenience.

No matter what, though, no matter when this happens, I'll still just go to turn on the tap,

maybe to rinse my hands or to maybe peel a hard-boiled egg or whatever,

take a glass of water, fill up my dog's water bowl. When you turn on the tap, my friends,

and nothing comes out, suddenly every problem you might have in your life feels pretty luxurious.

And yet, this I know, one of my favorite charities to support is charity water.

Clean water is so normal, common, expected, taken for granted by us, that we only notice it, we're only aware of it

when there's none, when it's gone, when your tap doesn't even trickle, there is nothing there.

Think about it.

Not everyone in the world has the privilege of clean

running water, let alone warm, clean running water. Gratitude, appreciation, awareness. This isn't

spiritual fluff. Come back to it.

Come back to the reality of this.

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