I was photographing this lovely yellow flower when suddenly I noticed a bit of it was moving…….then I saw the little spider!
Look at it! See how the yellow of its body so PERFECTLY matches the yellow of the flower! Goodness! How does that happen? Isn’t it astonishing!
One of my favourite philosophers is Deleuze. He emphasises not thinking of discrete objects. He rejects the typical “arboreal” system of thought where we set every organism into a specific branch in a taxonomic tree. Instead he suggests we think in terms of the connections and borders and interactions. He emphasises a “rhizome” model (like grass, which has no single centre, but is, instead more like a vast web). I’ve always found that idea appealing because it rejects labelling and putting things into boxes. Instead it emphasises dynamic change. That’s why I have the byline at the top of my blog – “becoming not being…..”
When you think in terms of becoming, not being, you focus on the interactions, the connections and the development of organisms. After all, can we really understand either this flower or that spider without considering how, together, they make a little functioning unit, a little ecosystem?
Heroes Not Zombies 
Nice control on the depths right there… Do you have a deviant account? It would be my pleasure to add you on my watchlist.
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Thanks for the positive feedback – I don’t know devianart but I have stumbled across it in the past. I’ll go explore it in more detail.
Thanks for the suggestion
Wow! I love your blog, Bob! I have spent a lovely while reading posts and mesmerised by images.
Thank you for the link to Deleuze, anything that ‘rejects labelling and putting things in boxes’ is cool as far I’m concerned!
And I love the idea of thinking in terms of becoming rather than being!
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Oh thank you Dianne. Yes, these really are core values to me. I hate labelling and boxing and I so prefer to see how everybody I meet is growing and developing and……..becoming!