Breezes from the west sent rippling patterns across the water this morning. They created gentle crisscrossing swells, as, I am guessing, current, water depth and wind shadows shaped the courses of the various bands, mingling them. The shape shifting went on and on. A chaos theorist might see fractals here.
Can the Ottauquechee be defined? I looked to the Internet's thoughts on the name's meaning: "swift mountain stream" or "swiftly moving water" or "waters of the chasm." The Abenaki people, who preceded the Europeans, left the name behind.
In the Gospel of John, while sitting by a well, Jesus talks with the Samaritan woman about "living water." Some think that a moving stream, as opposed to well water, may have been described in those times as "living."
How does the river live? It moves, sounds, rises, falls, darkens, brightens. Today, it seemed only to play.
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