Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Earth, Air, Fire and Water


Our river participates in at least two dynamics which bring it into being and take it beyond.  

Forces older than thought shaped the Ottauquechee watershed: drifting continents, rising and shrinking peaks and water's demand to flow down.

Water pours along the creases of the landscape, rises in evaporation, sinks beneath the earth, finds the sea and begins its wheel of flowing all over again.  That molecule of one hydrogen and two oxygen atoms recognizes few barriers.  It owns earth and air, and dances with fire.

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