was when the kids dug a well with a double shovel (a post-hole digger).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udd27 \u201cI thought the water would come out right away!\u201d<\/h2><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n
When they heard we\u2019d be digging a well, the kids were fired up\u2014
\u201cLet\u2019s find water!\u201d they said, taking turns and digging with all their might
using the double shovel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That day, we dug to nearly two meters deep. I\u2019d imagined that once you dig a well, water would just gush right out. By the end of the day, the soil was only slightly damp. But the next day, when our staff peered into the well\u2026 In other words, the water was<\/em> there all along, Invisible water, moving gradually through the ground and gathering in one place\u2014 This well will one day be fitted with a water-level sensor, In other words\u2014 There, just beyond the palms that dug the well, was an \u201cinvisible world of water.\u201d~ We dug, we waited, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jinr_url_youtube":"","_jinr_pip_youtube":false,"_jinr_time_youtube":"","_jinr_thumb_youtube":"","_jinr_media_youtube":"","_jinr_category_edit":false,"_jinr_category":"","_jinr_title_display":false,"_jinr_snsbutton_display":false,"_jinr_ads_display":false,"_jinr_thumbnail_display":false,"_jinr_profile_display":false,"_jinr_representations_display":false,"_jinr_relatedpost_display":false,"_jinr_sidebar1col_display":false,"_jinr_sidebar2col_display":false,"_jinr_seotitle_display":"","_jinr_description_display":"","_jinr_keyword_display":"","_jinr_hastag_display":"","_jinr_canonical_display":"","_jinr_noindex_display":false,"_jinr_paidpost":false,"_jinr_paidpost_product_id":"","_jinr_headtag_article":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workshop-en"],"views":"16","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusutsu-sustainable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusutsu-sustainable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusutsu-sustainable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusutsu-sustainable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusutsu-sustainable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rusutsu-sustainable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/rusutsu-sustainable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusutsu-sustainable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusutsu-sustainable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusutsu-sustainable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusutsu-sustainable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cIsn\u2019t it about time the water showed up?\u201d everyone wondered with high hopes\u2026
But still, no water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/rusutsu-sustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1655-1024x576.jpg\")
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But nature\u2019s water doesn\u2019t rush out on our schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\ud83d\udca7 \u201cIt didn\u2019t come today.\u201d But that was only the middle<\/em> of the story.<\/h2><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n
Everyone felt a little disappointed\u2014\u201cGuess it didn\u2019t come out\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
there was water pooled up to about 30 centimeters (around one foot) above the ground!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and it had been slowly, patiently seeping into the well over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\ud83d\udce1This was the experience of \u201cobservation.\u201d<\/h2><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n
spending a day to feel<\/em> that flow with their own bodies is an experience
that will surely stay with the children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
becoming a \u201cfuture observation point\u201d where we can watch water\u2019s movements in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the well dug by the children has become the starting line for a future in Rusutsu
where we see<\/em> nature through data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"