When I look at dad’s precise medical drawings I see through a lens of high magnification, into core relationships: where molecules per unit cell expand, keeping them lighter than water; where chains dance, small sphere hydrogen twirlings with large sphere oxygen on hydrogen-bonded disc-connectors. Looking down the c-axis’ open shaft, ice floats on liquid water. The connector in highly-exacted drawn models & interpolated lessons of ‘New Yorker’ humor, as in this balancing duo of men, one overly-nourished on a scale of ice floating on water, equally balancing the underweight man who has shrunk inward from deprivation in minus-concave, shows water  provides transport of needed nutrients and removals of waste & this scale offers trade-offs: temperature control and stabilization of  organic cellular volumes, in short, both men are struggling.

The connector is what I have already learned personally: that most cell volumes are kept constant by intricate systems of electrolyte transport in and out of the cell,  protecting its membranes from rupturing.  The sodium-pump, the active entrance of 3 sodium and exit of 2 potassium ions, aided by ATPase accomplish this task. When I drink salt water I am re-calibrated, to match what I need as a living being, restored from extractions and engorgements of available food & air beyond what I eat: organic, raw, unprocessed - beyond what I breathe turned to water in wrong places: trachea, lungs, skin, & inherited venous insufficient circulatory system compromised by industrial violator’s effluents.

Natural pumps of 96% reduced forests has been the counterpart of body personal connectors as life system ruptures. Pumps of energy vs mechanical gadgetry add a vast dimension to water’s delicacy & prowess.