Two months ago, I took part in a Creation-centered retreat at Mission Farm, Killington. One of the leaders, Mark Kutolowski, led a group into the woods with the goal of encountering what we found there in a new way, by recognizing, for lack of a better expression, the individuality of each. In other words, each tree, each rock, each insect, has a history, a trajectory to its existence, beginnings, middles and ends. He called on us to ask of the beings surrounding us, whether animate or not, "What is it like for you?"
Crossing the bridge a few weeks ago, I stopped and posed that question to the Ottauquechee River.
Today, the river is lower, the skies grayer, the leaves a muted gold.
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