Old dirt road
Follows the path
Duck to Corolla
Although mostly enjoyable, this hike did not offer the expected scenery variety, thus becoming a slow slog near the end.
“After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.” – G.M. Trevelyan
Shifting dune
Later stabilized
Kill devil hill
Commemorating the achievement of the Wright brothers, a 60-foot-tall granite monument was constructed atop the 90-foot-tall Kill Devil Hill sand dune. To secure the sandy foundation, bermuda grass was planted on the shifting dune and the surrounding area with fertilizer spread throughout. When is human intervention in natural processes acceptable?
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.” – Orville Wright
Destination awaiting
Relaxation elegance
Retreat place
Certain places offer comfortable vantage points of contemplation.
“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.” – Raymond Carver
Marked apprehension
Correct arrangement
Immediate duration
The sun sets on the Whaleshead gazebo pier, the perfect spot to experience present immediacy and anticipation.
“Thus the character of a moment and the ideal of exactness which it enshrines do not in any way weaken the position that the ultimate terminus of awareness is a duration with temporal thickness.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Natural state
Dance embrace
Divine frequency
Something about the beach seems to elicit jubilant physical movement as a kind of participatory engagement.
“Sometimes it’s only in the ecstasy of unrepressed movement that we may enter the stillness of our authentic selves.” – Alexandra Katehakis
Constant change
Place and time
Tide will turn
The ocean is a ceaseless phenomenon, with cyclical appearance variations evident continuously. Here water depth variations undulate outward from the shore.
“Meet me where the sky touches the sea.” – Nicole LaBarge
Outdoor venue
Consciously lonely
Fortune is random
Performing as an individual within a conforming multitude, the liberating requirement is to remain observationally aware of place and time. Ongoing research validates orientation.
“What is a master but a master student?” – Neil Peart
Time passes
Shifting sands
Changing constantly
In a way that corresponds to existing capacity, life is eternally confronted with the requirement to react to whatever external environment is presented. Emotional and rational associations based on immediate sensory perceptions and reflexive responses develop in a field of opportunity.
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” – J Kiran Desai
Elemental components
Physiological responses
Minds and bodies
Capturing movement is always a function of a relative reference frame within a distinct environment.
“Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Enclosed spaces
Line row control
Social withdrawal
The perceived layout of the physical environment can be affected by emotional states, especially where throngs gather. All animals allocate their limited energy and time across necessary proceedings.
“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.” – Voltaire