Hello Beloved,
The other day while my pup and I were taking one our little jaunts around the block I looked down at the perfect moment to see her shadow. A nice profile. The light and the angle were just right to make her shadow look like a wolf with its hackles all standing up angry like. The shadow was picture perfect for a wolf or werewolf TV show.
You know how sometimes you see things in the periphery and when you turn to look at it directly it either looks totally different or its not there at all? Sometimes I think shadows can be similar. From second to second they change in the constantly changing light.
Wouldn’t it be something if shadows could show us what the inner truth is? My little pup is only as fierce as a wolf in her dreams, if then even. Sometimes the shadows show us tall and skinny and sometimes short and chunky. Sometimes they show us alone and sometimes they show us with another.
I wish I could have gotten a picture of my pup’s shadow because moments like that rarely happen twice. I know some people are uncomfortable with shadows or perceived shadows. Shadows in and of themselves are nothing. It takes an object or a body and light to make a shadow. In order to be able to see a shadow there must be light.
If you are focused on the shadow you can forget the light is there and if you focus on the light you most likely are not able to see the shadow. Both light and dark are necessary to create the natural cycle of things. Sunny days are great, but we need darker rainy days as well. Have you ever made shadow pictures? I am not very good at them; my hands are not nimble enough usually. Have you seen pictures where a person’s profile is cut out of black paper? A shadow of the person captured in a piece of artwork.
Think how flat and boring the great works of art would be if the artists were not able to add shadows in the perfect spots? Darkness does not have to equal bad. The bad comes when the balance between the light and dark gets out whack, out of balance. Do you know how lovely it can be to sit in the shadow of a tree on a summer day?
Shade, another word for shadow. You ever throw shade on someone? You ever throw light on someone? I hope that I leave a legacy of throwing light on more people than I throw shade on. I hope you do too. I know, I know, how can I go on so long about shadows. Oh well, Beloved, that is my way I guess.
Beloved, have a lovely…
Mona Langmaackmelin
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