When I in Awesome Wonder… Michigan’s Golden Coast: Graceful Seagulls

Raucous, fighting, clumsy, irritating eater of scraps and dead fish: until the seagull is in the air, it is not an impressive bird, but with all air under its wings, it becomes a glorious reflection of the symmetry and grace of our Creator. Today I leaned against the wind atop a sixty-foot dune. With the wind roaring past me, a platoon of seagulls floated past me in perfect formation, pure white against the gray clouds, moving without flapping their wings, so slowly I could keep up with them...