Just add water…
We’ve built cities that forget. Forget rivers. Forget tides. Forget that most of our bodies are water. We design around roads. Around retail. Around return on investment. But not around the nervous system. Not around what makes us breathe slower. Not around what makes us feel alive. Water does that. It always has. I grew up on Cornish beaches. Cold wind. Grey sky. Salt in your mouth. My dad would paddle out first. I’d follow. No science. No strategy. Just a feeling. Something changed in me in the water. Quieter. Clearer. Braver. I didn’t have the language for it then. Now we call it blue health. But the name doesn’t matter. The feeling does. Years later, I build a surfpark in a field outside Bristol. Concrete. Planning meetings. Spreadsheets. Investors. We raised £30m to bring the ocean inland. People thought we were building a surf park. We were not. We were building access. Access to something ancient. Access to something the body understands ...
