Expansion experience
Perceptual horizon
Accumulated objects
On the river shore, selectively attending to different environmental contingencies is enlightening. Evidence of flow pattern remnants offer a heightened attainment to the generative process of existence.
“Our proper identity is a kind of change.” – Jeff Morrisey
Urban moment
Surrounding scene
Artistic inspiration
A key tenet of mindfulness suggests that we normally miss many interesting stimuli in the present moment. Mundane sameness and boring circumstances are states of mind.
“Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti
Aroused thought
Natural depths
Strangely accurate
Highly individual aesthetic experience emanates at the threshold of thought, as an intuitive element percolating below intellectual cognition. Integrating sensory and emotional reactions, value involves recognizing the essential point of existence.
“Sometime I think; and sometime I am.” – Paul Valéry
Biological production
Dominated by grasses
Significant degree
Not easily navigated on foot, an area of low-lying land on the York River is periodically flooded and typically remains waterlogged. Being near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, this marsh is brackish and experiences tidal fluctuations.
“A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.” – Guy de Maupassant
Physical fringe
Land edge
Waterbody
Overpowered by large trees obscuring the magnitude of the liquid expanse, dense herbaceous vegetation dominates the lake.
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” – Ralph W. Sockman
Morning air
Elemental forces
Enchanted moment
Releasing luminous radiance at the edge of creation, the restless sun in the east rose out of the ocean.
“There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” – Terry Pratchett