Wow -- this looks almost CGI.
Related thoughts from 2005:
Seeing an eddy up close produces a curious form of kinship, as if in the presence of something animate. It's somehow sacred and thrilling to have an eddy spin its fragile life away in your midst; the wind suddenly becomes an entity, distinct and defined, its machinations made visible like an organ saturated with dye and viewed on a medical scanner.
Oh, it's just a dust devil!
ReplyDeleteA trick of wind and movement!
Well...everything is made up of the same atoms, so I guess that in some ways it is 'alive'.
ReplyDeleteI don't think life is defined by its constituent materials. The prevailing pattern is what really counts. Organisms are processes, not "things."
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