gull of peace.
Apr. 6th, 2011 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
duccioI spotted this gull through my camera. Pretty much, people like gulls I'd say, and they seem to like being together. Sometimes they swoop down and try to snatch your food away, but that's pretty rare. I think it only happened once to me a long time ago on the seawall at Ocean Beach. This one didn't try anything like that. Mostly they just circle around and maybe come in close, looking for morsels of this or that, like our human friends do. Maybe their shit might fall on you, but surely, one would hope, that is unintentional.
Anyway, I'm watching this gull walking through the mud flats at a very low tide. It's just walking through, not intending to bother anything, just existing, being OK in it's gull sort of way. It casts a shadow as it passes, which probably it is not much concerned with, nothing seriously permanent or anything.
It's webbed feet are leaving ochre tracks in the raw umber mud. Those are facts. They can't be denied. The gull didn't make the mud though. You can complain about the gull existing, circling as gulls do, or that it is casting a shadow, or leaving traces in the mud, but you can't blame the gull for you having seen it, or for the notion that the gull created the mud. I don't think so, but somebody somewhere thinks this is true: that somehow, the gull created the mud. I'm willing, in the interest of peace and harmony, to entertain the proposition that somehow the gull is responsible for creating the mud, but it needs some serious explaining, not vague assertions falling from the sky. This has been bothering me all day.
Anyway, I'm watching this gull walking through the mud flats at a very low tide. It's just walking through, not intending to bother anything, just existing, being OK in it's gull sort of way. It casts a shadow as it passes, which probably it is not much concerned with, nothing seriously permanent or anything.
It's webbed feet are leaving ochre tracks in the raw umber mud. Those are facts. They can't be denied. The gull didn't make the mud though. You can complain about the gull existing, circling as gulls do, or that it is casting a shadow, or leaving traces in the mud, but you can't blame the gull for you having seen it, or for the notion that the gull created the mud. I don't think so, but somebody somewhere thinks this is true: that somehow, the gull created the mud. I'm willing, in the interest of peace and harmony, to entertain the proposition that somehow the gull is responsible for creating the mud, but it needs some serious explaining, not vague assertions falling from the sky. This has been bothering me all day.