RIVERSCAPES / WATERSHAPES
For the last fifteen years I’ve lived on the lower Skagit River.
The perspective I have of the life of the river comes from a meditation on relative motion and the scale of time. When I came to live on the river it was in order to slow down my life. I did this by accepting a great deal of “inconvenience.” The bargain would be I would not have to hurry. The slower I lived, the more stillness I allowed, the faster and more dynamic the river and the world became. Soon I was experiencing the river and the riparian habitat as something with a life and desire of its own.
Maggie Wilder October 2010
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