staring at the water

Rivers throughout history have been responsible for cities being built and even the odd country...They acted as highways, trade routes, sources of food, and supplied us with water for industry and agriculture. In fact Whitehorse where i was raised was created because the rapids would not let ships pass by... The Danube, which flows through Budapest is known to history as one of the long-standing frontiers of the Roman Empire and has played a major part in the creation of this city. And since the Hungarians are a practical people with sayings like "You can’t cross a river merely by standing and staring at the water" they took the time to build many beautiful bridges to cross over it... we of course did stand on the bridges and just watched the river because we, like Winnie the Pooh said "sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you might suddenly know everything that is to be known." Winnie the Pooh also said “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” we can learn a lot from rivers and small bears.