Zhangye Danxia - Geology From a Storybook
Long ago, colorful sediments were deposited in western China, layer after layer, century after century. If you were there at the time, you would have seen unremarkable ground, a single hue of dirt no different from a thousand other places on Earth.
But after thousands and thousands of years subject to the forces of pressure and tectonic movement, the total of those layers has been pushed upward, letting us peek at a rainbow-hued slice of Earth’s past perhaps unmatched on this planet. The planet looks more like the cross-section of a jawbreaker candy than layers of rock in these photos, near Zhangye, China.
The Zhangye formation, not to be confused with this danxia, a UNESCO heritage site, reminds us how our crust is heaved and hurled throughout the ages, a slow evolution that will continue into the distant future. It’s yet another story of Earth’s past, written in stone, but perhaps with the same pen as a fantasy storybook.
Check out more photos from Flickr user Melinda ^..^, and take some time to tour the formation in Google Earth.
Transitioning the transistors
of our emotions
sheds expectation
to unravel experience
Adrenals are a complex stimulus
always urging us to balance our energy
intending stability or falling on exhaustion.
The bittersweet part about stillness seems to be depriving ourselves from actions or experience that can construct our sense of being.
Maybe that’s just neurotic speaking but
Managing & Modifying our restlessness seems to be sweet way to engage
toward some type of discipline to reform ourselves from a
Fade Away & Radiate
Mentality.
9. Our virtuality is just the tip of our iceberg-humanity. We are so much more than our words and the speed of our fingers.
The internet is, perhaps, the only truly democratic medium left, that allows us to reach freely across countries and oceans, intolerance and preconceptions and dive straight into each other’s hearts.
Thanks to our online connection, we’re now reuniting with each other and, in a strange way, with ourselves. We’re just one click away, so close we can almost hear each other breathing.
Yet, beyond the screen we’re also flesh and bones, with broken hearts and sweaty hands. We must never mistake our frames for the whole picture, but use this virtual frame to better understand our real pictures: the whole of You and Me and everyone we know.
10….The only possible form of existence is co-existence. Beyond our own, unscripted individual stories, we’re part of a bigger, universal tale to which we add every day with our thoughts and actions. We are responsible for the course of events and desperate status of our world.
Thanks to our vibrant communication and multiple wireless connections, we’re at a place of synergy and synchronicity like never before. It is imperative that we make a mindful, heartfelt use of it.
As a human collective, we’ve come to a unique stage in history, that extends beyond brain-washed commune or heartless individuality.
Please hold my pixel hand, I promise you, the skin is there, even if you can’t touch it.
What is present for you right now?
A multiplicity of tabs and stories to occupy my moments from a chance to experience a sense of blankness from happening ever again. This goes against the stream of mindful values while immersing itself in a stream of distractive indulgence that should be dismissed from animosity & treated with in respectful velocity.
Perception by Suzanne Kurilla
