Naviculoid

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After naming Navigate, I find a definition of naviculoid:

(biology) Referring to a diatom, boat-shaped.

Answers.com

and read of

the state of flux of the current taxonomy and nomenclature of diatoms

Tentative key

(I return to this site one day later, to find the link no longer works.)

I reflect on Henri Bergson‘s notion of reality as time and space in flux, and on the first sea voyage with my father.

What prompted the animation was a swim in the sea with Meredith, who taught me how to float.

Animating after floating, thoughts and feelings merged, imagining myself navigating through the ocean of existence.