While reading “A Poetics of Planetary Water: The Blue Humanities After John Gillis” by Steve Mentz one thing that stuck with me was our human connection to water. For centuries humans have had a multitude of emotions revolving around the ocean and water as a whole. Feelings as opposite as fear and calmness have been a high point in the ways we speak about the water around us and our connection to it. One passage that I pulled from Mentz article that I felt drawn to was “For literary writers and scholars, the ocean seems especially attractive because of its metaphorical vastness. The great waters represent a principle of narrative fecundity that Salman Rushdie has described as the “sea of stories” (Mentz 140). The ocean draws out curiosity from human beings, the pure depth and feeling of the endlessness of the ocean has created a fascination within people. With these literary writers I have also noticed that although they may be speaking of the same topic, their tone and stories all feel rather unique to me. This could be because water is a representation of life and the different experiences we all have towards it can shape the ways we express ourselves revolving around the topic. The idea of the ocean representing narrative fecundity is something that I never thought much about, the possibilities are endless for creative minds to explore their emotions towards the water. Throughout the article Mentz speaks about not just the ocean but water as a whole having a deep relation with human life and even our cultures. With this in mind I started thinking about the possibilities that could be opened if we look at our lives the same way we do the ocean, as powerful and flowing. Another part of the article that relates to the ways that water can affect us was when Mentz quotes Moby-Dick, “One of the most widely quoted phrases from the novel holds that ‘meditation and water are wedded for ever.’ This phrase, however, does not exclusively describe the salt sea that is the novel’s primary setting” (Mentz 139). This quote along with Mentz point of it not being confined to only the sea is powerful. This explains that the flowing and depth of water is something that we should understand when also speaking of ourselves. Our lives are supposed to move and shift as time goes on much like water. These are all things that I will keep in mind while reading Moby-Dick because I know this novel will make me fall in love with the ideas revolving around blue humanities!