Habitually harm
Theft intimidation
Domineering bully
Larger birds often decide it is easier to steal food from a smaller bird rather than work for it themselves.
“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.” – Abraham Lincoln
Water transmitted
Low sun angle
Early morning
Seeing things in the moment and trying new capture techniques keeps life interesting.
“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.” – John Lubbock
Phenomena intensity
Surface consciousness
Perception movement
On some days the seagulls clump together with more vigor.
“To remember freedom, it will be enough to watch a happy seagull flying in the sky!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Early morning rendezvous
Solitary natural light
Rise before dawn
The most enchanting Atlantic light occurs in the hour before sunrise.
“The ocean is full of untamed magic.” – Claudia Noble
Strength in numbers
Location organized
For a little while
Possessing a strong societal structure, seagulls seem to enjoy hanging out together.
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Arthur C. Clarke
Time available
Resource organization
Inherently subjective
True crepuscular rays start when the sun is below the horizon during twilight hours. Dependent on vagaries of stratospheric cloud cover, such occurrences are a spiritually magical moment in the solar cycle.
“Each agent is itself a stochastic dynamical system, since it may sample, or be plagued by, the uncontrollable randomness in its substrates and in environmental stimuli.” – James P. Crutchfield
Manifest itself
Sensuous presentation
Consciousness intervention
Moving though space and time can primarily be an aesthetic experience.
“Although the work is caught up in human time, it also belongs to the time of things in terms of that part of’ itself which is a thing in the world.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Open system
Ecological entities
Observational predicates
The ocean lake development area is a reliable early morning aesthetic destination, even as wilderness struggles for survival in an environment modified for human occupation.
“Moreover, biodiversity conservation does not occur in a sociopolitical vacuum.” – Sahotra Sarkar
Necessity itself
Instrument of freedom
Infinitely subtle
The morning flux is full of spontaneous moments, all working on the cumulative mystery of existence.
“For consciousness corresponds exactly to the living being’s power of choice; it is coextensive with the fringe of possible action that surrounds the real action: consciousness is synonymous with invention and with freedom.” – Henri Bergson
Determine variables
Predict future
In full detail
Each morning is a gift from the universe.
“In ancient times, there was only a vague qualitative notion of order in nature.” – David Bohm