Martha Dahlen's Declaration of Dependence

Martha Dahlen Expresses a Universal Truth at Kalligraphia 13 : A Declaration of Dependence on  Water


Martha Dahlen "Declaration of Dependence"

I don't know anything about Martha nor have met her in person .  I chose her piece because it looks simple but the content is profound. It's also goes against the grain on the  "Declaration of Independence".

Thanks Martha for representing the pointed pen style. I've read that there's some 'bad blood' that exists between the broad-edge pen and pointed pen artists. Why? I don't understand it? It's like what's more important your left or right eye? Left or right  hand? Left or right leg? My answer is : BOTH. We need both pointed and broad pens style to get contrast.

I used to  stay my Aunt Carmen's home in my younger years. Her husband Uncle Maning was the Steel Mills president and he took the AIM (Asian Institute of Management) MBA training; AIM  has the reputation as being the best management training  in Asia. I'm usually curious about anything so I checked out his binders to learn what the scope was . One of the exercises for top management was this : If you were stranded in an enclosed environment whose resources can be turned off or removed anytime, choose only three items and rank them by importance in order to survive since no help is coming for one week .  The lists had more 100 items which included lots of luxurious things like cars, helicopter, radios, books, lounging chairs, tables,music cds, tv, nuggets of gold, fancy designer clothes, cigars , flashlight, life savers, candles, matches, movies, magazines, diamonds, million dollar check, cash, etc and not-so-glamorous stuff like  gallons of water and oxygen tanks.

If you chose all the fancy things like the cash, million dollar check ,cars, gold  instead of oxygen tanks , you'll be dead in a few minutes after oxygen is sucked out of the enclosed  environment.  This was an exercise to teach priority and importance of things. The three best answers by rank: oxygen tanks, gallons of water and food.

Reasons to Choose : Oxygen tanks and gallons of water

• In 10 seconds if  your brain is cut off from oxygen, you will be unconscious. The body will go into hypoxia and then anoxia. Within 4 to six minutes without oxygen, the person dies(exception for those divers who train their lungs to save oxygen but they will collapse later).
• A day without water is enough to make a person weak. After three days without water, a person can die since a human body is approximately 75% water and it needs water for normal functions of the body circulation.
• It's good to have food but it has been proven-- people can survive without food for a month if they drink water and  breathe oxygen.

Martha's "Declaration of  Dependence"  hits the mark what is important in our daily existence. I attended a Motivational Seminar and I still remember Zig Ziglar's quote: 
"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale."  Zig knows oxygen is up there to sustain life.
 I hope readers are aware of the need to conserve  and use water wisely.  Although our planet is surrounded by water,  majority are salty oceans & seas.  It is fresh water we need to drink and in some states and countries, water   has become a critical issue.

To have fresh oxygen, we need to plant trees. For without plants, Carbon dioxide will be hovering  in the air. Plants take in C02 and release oxygen for humans  to breathe.

Be a nature conservation activist for the future.