Speaking of fire, have you ever noticed the danger inherent in sitting around a bonfire after sunset? When night falls, flickering flames light the faces around it and reveal our whereabouts to whatever is lurking in the blackness beyond. The dark forest primeval just gets blacker and blacker as our eyes never acclimate to nighttime vision. Insisting on extremes of light and dark may be modern man’s Achille’s heel.
Value is valuable. Shades of light ground everything. Value embodies the full range of greys to reveal form, perspective, depth, texture, to give shape to all things. One extreme without the other is blinding, revealing nothing. Surely there is a profound metaphor here for living more wisely on this small planet. Thinking white is right and black is wrong traps us in literalism, …over which wars are fought.
Living a creative, sacred life depends on shades of light and the metaphoric truths found there.