Photography is all about light. In fact the word photography means literally drawing with light. The same scene photographed in different light conditions will look very different. The Light at Twilight My favorite time of day is twilight when the trees look like inky black drawings against the sky. Read more…
It was a good week. The big snowstorm that was predicted missed us. I got to have lunch with a friend to celebrate her birthday. The temperature was above freezing outside each day. I had plenty to eat, a comfortable bed to sleep in, hot and cold running water, time Read more…
In Times Like These We Need to Spread Light This has been a challenging week for me. Hearing of still one more horrific school killing amidst all of the negative news in politics made me feel like I was living inside a dystopian novel. I cried when I saw the Read more…
This post is for all of you who woke up this morning, the day after the election, and discovered that your nightmare wasn’t just a nightmare. It came true. “It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Read more…
Darkness Shining In Western thought light and darkness are seen as polarities—light as good, darkness bad. But I am learning to look at light differently. Neil Douglas-Klotz introduced me to the idea of “darkness shining” in The Hidden Gospel. He says that the Aramaic word “Shem,” for light, includes all Read more…