Causality Seeks
Given elements
Mechanism expresses
Recomposing whole
Objects naturally develop their own amiable sort of relationships.
“While intelligence treats everything mechanically, instinct proceeds, so to speak, organically.” – Henri Bergson
Circling Over
Ocean medley
Winter feeding
Northern gannets
On the Outer Banks the winter comes alive in desolation.
“The more science advances, the more it sees the number grow of heterogeneous elements which are placed together, outside each other, to make up a living being.” – Henri Bergson
Sweet Simplicity
Matter aspect
Elaboration process
Forms modified
A small Quonset Hut original used in an oil business on a river confluence is here converted into a seafood restaurant.
“We conceive ourselves as perceiving attributes of things, and bits of matter are the things whose attributes we perceive.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Occupied Accordingly
Outcome of relations
Different bits of matter
Distinct volumes of space
Slowly the swamp reveals its essence.
“Recognize that experience has its indubitable right and that, on the basis of experience, undoubtedly valuable findings of endless abundance are attainable.” – Edmund Husserl
Dissociation of Matter
Rare remnants
Ship wreck
Change circumstances
A fossil from the steampunk era.
“There is something which in itself is one, and which is more than the logical aggregate of entities occupying points within the volume which the unit occupies.” – Alfred North Whitehead
If the matter Be
Bare entity
Abstraction necessary
Method of thought
Spatial and color relationships grace a study of simple complexity.
“Thus space is not a relation between substances, but between attributes.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Knotted Substratum
Ingrained tendency
Insistent postulation
While not at sea
Near a mooring port, replica old-ship tourist ramps are secured with rope.
“Matter represents the refusal to think away spatial and temporal characteristics and to arrive at the bare concept of an individual entity.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Relations Between
Different departments
Of knowledge
Connected by use
Small hue shifts away from neutral gray are aesthetically rewarding.
“Nature can be thought of as a closed system whose mutual relations do not require the expression of the fact that they are thought about.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Admirable Solicitude
Cannot abandon
Working definitions
Inserted in relations
There are occasionally adventurous times when a destination turns-out to be authentic.
“Nature is that which we observe in perception through the senses. In this sense-perception we are aware of something which is not thought and which is self-contained for thought.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Crows
Once upon
Forgotten lore
Unexpected wildness
Some birds seem to like to attract attention.
“When the crows come black against the darkening sky their wings obscure the sun and small sounds drown in their strident caws.” – Lisl auf der Heide