Poetic tone
Spiritual style
Ocean counterpoint
With extremities cooling-off in the sea, carefree days of summer are sanctioned while offering solace and inspiration. The ocean is never still, as waves transmit energy across a holistic marine basin. The place where life ultimately began, capricious aquatic demarcations are a consummate divination.
“In the summertime when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky.” – Ray Dorset
Immediate gratification
Expect convenience
Deserve service
To fulfill a relational obligation to sustain certain demands, the ‘common good’ refers to material, cultural and/or institutional facilities available to a community furnishing members desirable services.
“Common sense is not so common.” – Voltaire
Wood and steel
Nice long bar
Hanging out
A cool local brewery that features tasty, fresh, craft beer on tap in a congenial tavern is a fantastic local resource. Such a venue is well worth seeking out in any town or burg.
“The bitterness is prominent, but is nicely balanced with a generous malty backbone that is laced with a touch of sweetness.” – Davis Gove
Serious decisions
Part of the flow
Social consumption
Specific assemblage happenings mark the progression of experience. Perhaps the appearance of time flowing, and its resulting phenomenological manifestation, only arise as a secondary effect of deeper quantum functions. On the other hand, time may be the singular essential dimension of existence.
“There has never been a single point in your entire life in which the past has been anything other than memories experienced in the present.” – Bernardo Kastrup
Dinner out
With friends
Laid back fun
The comradely and shared conversation around the dinning table are as important as the perceived victual quality. Durational trip episodes are filled with special individual occasions worth celebrating.
“Having a ring leader at the table—one who can keep things moving, call out other members of the group by name, and be the point-of-contact for the server—really helps with communication.” – Rachel Titcomb
Intelligibility involved
Contingent moment
Diverse natures
The loop paths traversing the Bristoe Station Battlefield Heritage Park are nice little backdrops to spend an hour walking. Now severely encroached by housing developments and busy roads, this location is part of a series of Northern Virginia civil war parks featuring specific historical significance. Any historical record, as understood in the collective societal memory, is under continuous re-interpretation.
“There is still another structural moment, indeed the central moment, the reflection itself, the referral of the apprehended form to the cognitive faculties in such a way that a certain harmony can be exhibited.” – John Sallis
Decorative ingredients
Enhancing the interior
Space planning
Some commercial establishments attempt to manipulate the environment to facilitate the conspicuous consumption experience. It is about changing mentality and behavior to promote the desire of potential expenditure.
“You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
Typical procedure
Within certain limits
Horizontal plane
Large public transportation venues tend to reduce patterned and repetitive human behavior to simple spasmodic movement. Meanwhile, aesthetic functions serve the purpose of awakening within a certain uplifting or otherwise significant feeling.
“We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.” – Anthony Liccione
Lifestyle accessory
Personal identity
Completely in contact
In the early evening on Main Street, moving swiftly with earsplitting noise and penetrating disturbance, a rider passes-by primarily for self gratification. Narcissistic validation, such trenchant commotion forcibly attracts attention.
“With the throttle screwed on there is only the barest margin, and no room at all for mistakes … that’s when the strange music starts.” – Hunter S. Thompson
Raw bar and grille
Aquatic invertebrate
Consumption harbor
Setting up a territorial presence secure within the confines of an eatery, evening patrons observe the passing scene with passive interest. The present is always a moving dynamic boundary between the past and the future.
“Funky local place near the Manassas train st ation and ice rink.” – Ken Aull