If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

-Eleonora Duse

We drive along side and over the Tuckasegee River multiple times a day. We spend a lot of time at nearby Deep Creek:

What I love about water: it always follows its own course, twisting and turning and carving out its own way. Follow a stream to the end and you see that it continues to find the lowest point, the most humble path. It doesn’t see obstacles, or at least it doesn’t make a big deal out of them. A river or stream will just reroute itself, seemingly with little effort, cutting a new path. River beds move all the time, over the years they carve out new paths. Drop a rock into a lake or river and you can see the endless ripples of one single act. A river, a stream, I think, are a great teachers. Nature is a very good teacher.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

-Heraclitus