& past twilight into the night http://www.alansondheim.org/flow1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/flow2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/flows.mp4 video
& demonstration of the flows of starlings in ragged murmuration flights, the roof as momentary stasis, multiple flight paths, circulations, catastrophe theory comes to mind, choices of individual birds, flows &divisions, turbulence, turbulent 'animals' (appearance of partial and momentary pattern stases), the 'swirl,' the imminent landings (roof, nearby tree), our own expectancy (sitting nearby for an hour, waiting for the coming murmuration) - to "wait" to "wait for" to "await" http://www.alansondheim.org/DSC06941.JPG http://www.alansondheim.org/DSC06945.JPG http://www.alansondheim.org/DSC06947.JPG http://www.alansondheim.org/DSC06961.JPG http://www.alansondheim.org/DSC06962.JPG http://www.alansondheim.org/DSC06967.JPG http://www.alansondheim.org/DSC06968.JPG ( again, http://www.alansondheim.org/murmuration.mp3 ) the murmuration has settled into the tree as light falls & fails, the starlings move towards the center almost invisible & the camera records a few traces the noise diminishes slightly, birds among communal warmth surely warmth, companionship, protection, a temporary home never refugees, always homes, always a settling, chattering here & there, the nearby, o heidegger why could you seeing as informing, capitulation, as listening, habitus hearing as informing, as coming about, familiality but listening to them, their world, their customs, cultures for none are one & many, all of us one & many among them we remain quiet, beyond, the darkness surrounds us o starlings, o murmuring murmurations
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