So, what is it like for you, Ottauquechee? Some say it is a guy thing to define who you are by your function. "What do you do?" being the question coming up early in a guy-to-guy conversation. I know I have posed it countless times. So, Ottauquechee, what do you do?
If the stream spoke, she might say, "I take mountains down to build them up again." Our river, with utter persistence, will help Killington mountain erode away. In mining the works of popular geology by writers like John McPhee and Simon Winchester, we learn how the slow and sure process of mountain building shares the planet with that ineluctable process of rain falling, gathering into streams, pulling earth and stone with them and, with infinitesimal pace, layers the silt of peaks onto the floors of oceans, where the foundations of Everests await.
Today's clear waters work this process, unseen: New England flowing away. The floating leaves give us just a hint.
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