Light and Dark — It’s in All of Us
As you integrate ignorance and failure into your knowledge and success, do the same with all the alien parts of yourself. Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself. Let your altruism meet your egotism, let your generosity meet your greed, let your joy meet your grief. Everyone has a shadow… But when you are able to say, “I am all of the above, my shadow as well as my light,” the shadow’s power is put in service of the good. Wholeness is the goal, but wholeness does not mean perfection, it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of your life. — Parker Palmer
2 Comments
Kathy Urberg · August 11, 2015 at 2:15 am
Marilyn,
That is an amazing photo. I love it. Is it a fountain? How did you make the photo?
Marilyn · August 11, 2015 at 3:07 am
Thanks Kathy! It’s the dandelion fountain at Loring Park. I used Nik tools to help me darken the dark parts (a lot of shadow when I made the photo) and to bring out the structure in the water. I was going for a Chiaroscuro look and really like how it turned out.