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Dolphin Logic
A pod of dolphins is a frolic of nature, an organization of chaotic joy. Each dolphin, in his or her own way, is unique and happy. Were it not for the brotherhood of the pod, each dolphin would go free on their own to experience their own joy. But then, there would be no joy, for the joy comes from the brotherhood.
In turn, each pod is not an individual, but they commune with one another. At times, two pods will become one, then separate again. Nor is the brotherhood confined to the dolphins themselves, for they love to commune with aliens.
Alien to their species, that is, humans and other land creatures, as well as fish and other sea mammals. One dolphin says to me, "You. You are not like me. You are alien, yet... you are not so alien." He seems to look deep into my being, past the body, past even the mind, straight into my soul. There he finds the mark of eternal brotherhood, that which transcends the limitations of all species.
Then he swims around me in circles, chirping and whistling with joy, having found one who, in being different, is the same. Then suddenly do I realize how things that are different are the same. The joy comes in our differences, in comparison and contrast. Then do I join the frolic of nature.
- Matt Kellner, 1995
