watery musing

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What did Ishmael say in Melville's Moby Dick? 

Something like, "Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region...Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever." 

Ishmael was longing for the long soul-searching meditation found on the open ocean, for me it's often the restorative property of a babbling mountain stream. 

My friend Tamera from Mast General Store sent me this short video. Her pondering? What bird can be heard singing in the background? 

After my meditation, although it is faint—and we'll let the watery environs near Citico be a clue—methinks it's the longings of a Louisiana waterthrush.

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