I can't sleep…
“The art of flying is a short film about “murmurations”: the mysterious flights of the Common Starling. It is still unknown how the thousands of birds are able to fly in such dense swarms without colliding. Every night the starlings gather at dusk to perform their stunning air show. Because of the relatively warm winter of 2014/2015, the starlings stayed in the Netherlands instead of migrating southwards.”
“The Art of Flying” by Jan van IJken
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Photo: The passenger ship ‘Soderarm’ slides in a channel through the ice made by an icebreaker for the daily journey to the island Husaro in the Stockholm archipelago in Sweden on April 5, 2013. (Anders Wiklund, Scanpix, AFP, Getty Images) (via Newthom)
Photo: Marcus Yam, Ventura, California Wildfires (December 5, 2017). His statement: “This is a recurring scene in my dreams.”
I want to rest, to float–
a dust mote in a beam
of light squared by a window–
to sigh and lilt between
the object and the eye,
before the day can catch me
back up into myself,
and through that prism, watch me
– Anna Lena Phillips Bell, from “Midafternoon” in Ornament
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