Pelicans

Atlantic population
Disperse northward
Follow fish concentrations

A large migratory flock observed flying in formation over the Outer Banks.

“I didn’t know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.” – Earl Lovelace

Execute a dive
Precipitous drop
Water headfirst

Pelicans diving into the ocean accelerate fast from as high as 60 feet above the surface.

“Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.” – Gabrielle Zevin

Seascape quality
Crucial role
Played by scenery

After several months away from the beach, it takes little time to get right back into the aesthetic flow.

“The objectivist or physical paradigm is the conventional view that the quality of the landscape is an intrinsic attribute of the physical landscape, just as landform, water bodies and hue are physical qualities.” – Andrew Lothian

Cyclic pattern
Recurrent variations
Passing away

Randomness is a large part of life’s equation.

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” – Haruki Murakami

Continuous multiplicity
Rhythmic organization
Of the whole

Instantaneous impressions of an ever changing vista reinforce the mysteries of natural forces. A present contraction leads consequently to a future expansion.

“But the fact is that each increase of stimulation is taken up into the preceding stimulations, and that the whole produces on us the effect of a musical phrase which is constantly on the point of ending and constantly altered in its totality by the addition of some new note.” – Henri Bergson

Sufficient condition
Occurring together
Conflation consequence

Wild autonomy stimulates us aesthetically, but do seabirds appreciate the aesthetic beauty offered in their own diurnal cycle?

“The aesthetic experience of wildlife is one of spontaneous form in motion.” – Holmes Rolston III

Unexpected intersect
Ontological orientation
Sensation intensification

Ceaseless motion becomes apparent at the ocean’s edge.

“Philosophy is the mobilization of the force of difference where immobility and the static dominate thought; it is the freeing up of becoming from any determinate direction, the seizing of provisional becomings from the chaos of being.” – Elizabeth Grosz

Resolution sequel
Collateral proceedings
No further appeal

A recent spiritual passing in the flux of time.

“Life’s final lesson,the only truthful one buried beneath a layered skein of delusions.” – Steven Erikson

Immanence generates
Inadvertent transcendence
Essential ambiguity

Within the consistency of natural processes, the ocean shines on an overcast day.

“To have a system, this is what is fatal for the mind; not to have one, this too is fatal. Whence the necessity to observe, while abandoning, the two requirements at once.” – Friedrich Schlegel

Sinuous sand
Glistening waves
Pelicans in flight

Pelican activity seems to vacillate without discernible cause.

“This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.” – Alessandro Bariccoe