The Edge of Life

Mid-winter traces of the vital force follow their opportunities on the surface of stone at Halibut Point.

Moss

How is it that a singular boulder hosts this verdant colony? Whether algae or moss, it glows with the evidence of organic life finding solar energy and specific nutrients on a unique rock, perhaps brought by a glacier from far away, with its modern history in a pasture wall, a compilation of chemistry and desire.

Lichen

During an interlude between frost and snow a lichen proceeds with fruiting in its own calendar niche, anchored to castoff grout as a peculiar symbiosis of photosynthesizing algae and moisture-retentive fungus, soon to cast fertile spores to the wind for the miniscule prospect of engendering new life afar.

Bacteria

When the temperature and light are just right seepage through the granite evidences a bridge from inert minerals to organic life in the embodiment of cyanobacteria among the shapes and colors that transform a quarry surface into patterns of intrigue we call beauty.

Liminata

The edge of life shimmies with alternate currents of awareness accepting and relinquishing motive forms between states of being, organizing the dynamics of identity over the terrain of conscious boundaries flowing adroitly past inquisitive ends and beginnings.