Enamored contact
Inspire wonder
Idealistic view
Lacking judgment of why things are, natural fascination starts at an early age as life unfolds. A higher knowledge emerges with curiosity and a sense of wonder.
“To contemplate is consciously to possess meanings; to behold them with relish; to view them so absorbingly as to revel in them.” – John Dewey
Particular purpose
Practical assortment
Suspended accouterments
A well-designed organizational structure facilitates effectiveness. Simple processes are internally efficient.
“Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.” – Amit Kalantri
Operative presence
Meaning continuum
Incident fulfillment
Episodes are perceived in terms of constantly evolving conditions. Many aspects of experience are something had, but not known or communicated.
“Every case of consciousness is dramatic; drama is an enhancement of the conditions of consciousness.” – John Dewey
On the wall
Corner attraction
Oval rumination
Contemplative art that adorns a brief lavatory visit cannot fail to excite introspection. What comes first, the idea or the reflection?
“The egg must break open in order for life to emerge. The Earth must be turned and the cloud must burst. You were never meant to stay in your shell.” – Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Raising awareness
Continuous energy
Being natural
Functioning as an integrated part of the seascape, the sound and smell of the ocean interface augments the visual experience.
“Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia – the place where all our dreams come true.” – Roxane Gay
Tasty food
Friendly service
Good times
During 1943, Charles “Cotton” Limbocker opened The Chef café in downtown Manhattan, Kansas. The Limbocker descendants closed the restaurant in 1986, but it reopened in 2008 under new management in the same location with the original Chef neon sign still hanging outside.
“Back in the day, you had to eat fast, because you better believe there was somebody behind you, ready to take your seat.” – Kurstin Harris
Exacting conditions
Dialectical physics
Sensuous appetite
In an alchemy of elements unfolding during another breaking morning over the Atlantic ocean, sunlight rims the distant horizon illuminating a distinct edge. Such temporal junctions in space bring into relief the aesthetic appeal of life on a spinning planet.
“When consciousness is connected with nature, the mystery becomes a luminous revelation of the operative interpenetration in nature of the efficient and the fulfilling.” – John Dewey
Water droplets
Reflection refraction dispersion
Spectrum of light
Ephemeral rainbows appear suddenly and in their infrequency activate inner feelings of intrinsic enchantment.
“We paused and moved again in languid fits, and it went on like that, advancing and sitting, until the tempests left and the overcast passed us; then the sun appeared, and a rainbow arched behind us.” – Milan Sime Martinic
Fluid dynamics
Hydrogeologic regime
Tectonic position
Changes are always taking place in Yellowstone’s dynamic hydrothermal fields. Tree-kill areas result from active geothermal fluid flows issuing from fault zone migration pathways.
“The surface manifestations of a geothermal system in a volcanic area are generally the features that first stimulate exploration.” – Kenneth Wohletz
Surfactant compounds
Breaking waves
Surf zone
Extending onto the shore, the wave field can no longer propagate. All of conditioned existence is vacillating, transient, and evanescent, even if operative within a universal framework. Material and mental temporal entities are compounded objects or events in continuous change.
“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” – Rachel Carson