Haunted River

" Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand in my youth are dead. But I still reach out to them. . . Eventually all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words. And some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters ."

Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It