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Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Water The Drop of Life Part One: Body and Soul. Documentary about the global uses and abuses of water. Shot on location in numerous countries.
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations says "I think water is almost the source of life in every culture. Not only do we need it to survive, but they use it for rituals, for baptism, for washing new born babies. And without it agriculture and food and all these things we eat may not be on the table."
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Bali woman lighting incense, praying near rice paddy. Two Balinese men planting rice in paddy.
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Journalist Isabel Allende says "It has to do with everything that is spiritual to human kind. In all harvest rituals water is involved, because there would be no harvesting without the water."
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Zoom in on temple in Bali. Holy statuary, reliefs, pots at temple. High priest and female assistant preparing water to used in harvest blessing ceremony. Man playing drum, cymbal. Women carrying baskets of fruit as offerings, some carrying them on their head. Offerings being blessed with holy water. Bali adults and children being blessed with holy water and grains of rice. Women returning offerings to fields. Two cows pulling plow through rice paddy.
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop says "So, there's a reference, which we don't have in our society. We have a respect. We clean up our mess or we should. We have a respect about how water comes and how we should preserve it. But that spiritual relationship with the world, with the plant world, or with the ground, or with water, we don't have."
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Water The Drop of Life Part One: Body and Soul. Documentary about the global uses and abuses of water. Japan
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Water The Drop of Life Part One: Body and Soul. Documentary about the global uses and abuses of water. Shot on location in numerous countries. Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop says "It's those types of rituals that I think are the sort of the myths and legends of life that we've lost in our society. We don't know how to ritualize water. We just turn on the tap and there it comes so we don't have the sense of benediction for water."
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Water The Drop of Life Part One: Body and Soul. Documentary about the global uses and abuses of water. Group of white American Christians wearing white baptismal robes, standing on shore of Jordan River in Israel at alleged site of Jesus' baptism by John the Baptist, singing "Amazing Grace" to accordion accompaniment. New American Bible being held. Christians being baptized in River Jordan. Some moments of revelation, joyous response. Christians praying at Jordan River.
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Water The Drop of Life Part One: Body and Soul. Documentary about the global uses and abuses of water. Ganges, River, India
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Water The Drop of Life Part One: Body and Soul. Documentary about the global uses and abuses of water. Shot on location in numerous countries.
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, "You look at the Ganges in India and it shows you that instinctively not only do we value the importance of water but we want to be close to it, we want to have access to it. So all these big city centralization developed along water and people really see water as a source of life."
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, "I think one really important thing is to be re-enchanted by water. I think your experiences change, your values change, your thoughts about water will change when your experiences about it change."
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Queen Noor of Jordan (Lisa Najeeb Halab) of Jordan: "I think in most religions water is associated with purification and it is therefore, I would think, religion should be one unifying force as we look at the importance of this resource and ways in which we must identify common ground for cooperating to preserve and manage the resource equitably as possible."
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Water The Drop of Life Part One: Body and Soul. Documentary about the global uses and abuses of water. Shot on location in numerous countries.
Nine Months
Nine Months: Program chronicling pregnancies of women at risk of having low birth weight babies
Nine Months
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Women in TV studio introduce themselves and their respective pregnancies. Lesley (Caucasian) has two older children; she says after a miscarriage, she wanted to be pregnant again.
Nine Months
Women in TV studio introduce themselves and their respective pregnancies. Eliska (African American) describes how the first pregnancy test was negative. She says she and her boyfriend both didn't want a baby but she finally went to receive prenatal care.
Nine Months
Women in TV studio introduce themselves and their respective pregnancies. Devette (African American) says she and her husband wanted another baby and "planned" to try for a girl. She says her first pregnancy test was negative but she was sick; after a second test was positive her doctor confirmed. Latricia (African American teenager) says she went to get birth control from a doctor and was already pregnant, so she began prenatal care. Latricia says sickness and feeling the baby's movements made her wonder if she was pregnant. Eliska wonders when fetal movements can first be felt, and Marion McCartney (a certified nurse midwife) answers: at about 20 weeks during a first pregnancy or 15-16 weeks for the second. The women discuss feeling their babies move.
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Women in TV studio discuss preparing older children for new siblings. Lesley tells of asking her son to feel the baby move in her womb. Devette says she's trying to prepare her toddler for a new baby. Eliska says her daughter is acting like a baby now that a new one is on the way, discusses trying to pre-empt jealous sibling behavior. Lesley says she acknowledged her daughter's feelings and made "special time" with the oldest. Devette wants to get a toy baby doll for her toddler son.
Nine Months
Women in TV studio discuss their respective pregnancies. Nurse midwife asks about negative feelings toward being pregnant. Latricia (pregnant teen girl) says she got moody after she got pregnant, describes relationship with her mother. She says she wants a boy.