South fork

 

Nice clear cold mountain water, flowing in the Swannanoa River (south fork) which meets the north fork about another mile downstream...I think. It's a pretty small river, but the whole valley is named after it, and it probably meandered in different ways in the past.

As I've mentioned before, it flows into the French Broad River in Asheville NC, then through the Appalachian mountains to Hot Springs, then over into Tennessee where it meets the Holston and they form the Tennessee River at Knoxville...thus to the Mississipppi.  

I live about 10 miles west of the Eastern Continental Divide at Old Fort Gap just past Ridgecrest. 

Today's quote:

Midwiv

es of the Soul

Do not lose your light.

Even when things feel uncertain

and the dawn forgets to come

do not lose your fire

hold close your inner sun.

Do not lose your fire,

and do not lose your light

for it's in the inner tending

the eternal soul burns bright.

Do not lose your light. (Nor hand

its sacred tending,

to the changing figures

of the night.)

Do not lose your light.

And, as things grow darker

(or longer, or the days colder)

know it's in the sharing

that more brilliant lamps,

ignite.

Do not lose your light.

For e'en in great storm or drought

or darkness,

the lamp of soul is bright.

Hold close to your light.

For no outer force can steal it,

the light of soul, it always embers

through the Darkest of all Nights.

Do not lose the light.

(You cannot lose the Light.)

~ Rachel Alana, Midwives of the Soul.