Human River

Downstream

Considering the River Thames of England, Peter Ackroyd wrote:

"When the river is described it always assumes a human dimension.  It is patient, making its way through any obstacle.  It is ruthless, wearing down the hardest rocks.  It is unpredictable, especially when its current is interrupted or diverted. ... Its character changes within each terrain.  It becomes terrible and vindictive.  It becomes sportive.  It becomes treacherous.  It becomes impartial.  It becomes industrious.  It gives human characteristics to topography."

Thames: Sacred River, end of Chapter 4.

So too our Ottauquchee, now asleep.

Upstream