Veracious unity
Palpable independent
Extension relation
A general theory of the world can be formulated at the beach by constructing metaphysical principles from the natural experience of the dynamics of becoming.
“It is this unit factor, retaining in itself the passage of nature, which is the primary concert element discriminated in nature.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Iridescent plumage
Coastal saltwater
Sand forage
Exhibiting behavioral flexibility, grackles are extremely opportunistic omnivores. They often forage near water, by walking on the shore and catching items with rapid bill thrusts. Food particles wash-in with the waves, including many insects, crabs, mussels, shrimp, and small fish.
“At times the grackles waded into the water with their tails elevated and plunged their heads under the surface for food.” – Steven J. Zottoli
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
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
Extended sense
General harmony
Calm mental state
Tangible realities in a naturalized world, certain environmental locations and associated circumstances elicit universal thoughts. Accepting existence does not require a decisive explanation.
“As mindfulness calms our emotions, we can peer into their depths and see our overshadowing spiritual values reflected on the surface.” – Michael Benner
Morning light
Summer wind
Early riser
When walking on the beach through the crack of dawn, aligning with the cosmic currents of existence seems more possible. By the process of experience coupled with introspection, a meaningful existence emerges from a sensitive temperament in touch with the natural world.
“At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.” – Sandy Gingras
Circle high
Coastal waters
Headfirst plunge
Diving pelicans learn that a steep dive angle, ranging from between 60 and 90 degrees, reduces aiming errors due to water surface refraction. Located on their breasts just beneath the skin, air sacs act as cushions to avoid injury from surface forces on impact.
“The brown pelican usually plunge-dives head-first for its prey, from a height as great as 33–66 ft, especially for anchovies and menhaden.” – Andrew Elliott
Extension connexion
Knowing procedure
Moving on
Territory of dreams in a material world, time moves from current moment to atmospheric mood.
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Change over time
Wave energy environment
Current advance
Schematics of relevant phenomena, relations between observable entities change as a characterization of certain behaviors based on acting forces. Prevailing external influences affect human functional capability through intervening self processes.
“Understanding the way shores function throws light on their past history and forms a basis for the prediction of future evolutionary patterns, generally through empirical accumulation knowledge complemented by some form of modeling.” – Edward J. Anthony
Temporal succession
Immediate extension
Ideal exactitude
Mental calmness follows acceptance of the impossibility of physical stabilization. Although change itself is a persistent process, the understanding of change as inconsistency liberates.
“We are now prepared to consider the meaning of stations in a duration, where stations are a peculiar kind of routes, which define absolute position in the associated timeless space.” – Alfred North Whitehead