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A Letter to Water
Adeolu Oyekan
Adeolu Oyekan writes “A letter to
water” (pages 65-66 below) in the
candid idiom of a child’s letter to a
nourishing parent. With the flow of
watery ink along the textured paper
ground, thoughts about humanity’s
relationship with water are released
in a way that subtly follows the path
of the pilgrimage: from the heights
of grateful appreciation, plunging to
the depths of despair at water’s
suffering in our careless hands, and
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rising again towards hope in the
pledge of remedial action. The
letter models an ethical stance in
which humanity ought to
acknowledge, and extend the
proper apology to, a greater being.