The River That Learned to Think
The river did not always know its own name. Long before maps pressed blue lines onto paper and engineers carved numbers into stone, it was simply motion—water listening to gravity, shape, and time. It slid over pebbles, bent around roots, and sang to the air in a language older than words. Yet on one quiet morning, as sunlight fractured into trembling diamonds on its surface, the river began to wonder why it moved the way it did.