How Far Away
Back in the day
Time to time
Lose my way
A few remnants of small antique gas stations with attached canopies still dot the Missouri roadside landscape. Designed to preserve the character of prevailing environs, oil companies deployed these pre-fabricated filling stations to reflect local house styles. Gas pumps could be approach from either side to provide an efficient distribution scheme.
“As drive-in filling stations replaced curbside pumps in the 1920s, the new structures sought to assimilate with the existing environment.” – Laura Mallard
Waves
Compounding series
Empathetic interconnectivity
Ripple effect
Ocean waves catch the morning sunlight in a creative push, feeding imagination and freedom as everything moves around.
“Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.” – John Tyndall
Free Advice
Energetic quality
Improve confidence
Feel strength
Be leery of anyone who pretends to know what is best for you. This warning especially applies to advice offered by eager salesmen, self righteous politicians, and sanctimonious religious prophets.
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.” – Oscar Wilde
Sound Tree
Waterfront venue
Historic setting
Perfect locale
Some things persist. The most ancient Live Oak trees in existence on the Outer Banks are estimated to be between several hundred to over a thousand years old. This one is located on the picturesque Whalehead Club grounds along the Currituck Sound in Historic Corolla.
“Visitors stroll among live oaks that are considerably taller and fatter than when the Knights planted them.” – Bryan Mims
Elite Fitness
Exercise influence
Socially superior
Best of class
At a glance, written language symbols fit an architectural systematic organization found on a street corner. Primary material elements are connected with an internal poetic correspondence.
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
On the Ground
Material substratum
Some way accounts
Surrounding area
Looking down, grounding is variegated in the sense of surface characteristics and determinant coarse-grained relations. This implies that facts about physical particles ground facts about larger object fields.
“It’s a familiar idea that the world—understood as the fusion of all concrete entities—has an overarching layered structure.” – Edward N. Zalta
Elemental Syncopation
Real commitment
Residing interstice
Emergence of being
With integrating power, the imagination surpasses actuality in a move towards an extended reality. A walk on the beach is both a discovery and a projection.
“By the swiftness of its actions, the imagination separates us from the past as well as from reality; it faces the future.” – Gaston Bachelard
Old Joe
Smooth character
Dromedary ungulate
Walk a mile
Lost cigarettes are subject to the forces of nature on the beach. One of a kind, perhaps seawater and sand curing improves the subtle Turkish blend. Camel time.
“Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.” – Jeffrey McDaniel
Reflection Planes
Axis angle
Translational conditions
Involution succession
Appearance conditions are influenced by relative positioning and cognitive organization. A progressive reorganization of mental processes result from dynamic environmental experience patterns.
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald