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Dark
There’s more certainties in life than death and taxes. There’s light and then there is always the dark.
If I feared darkness as child then it didn’t stop me from needing it absolutely. In order to switch off and fall asleep I demanded absolute dark. A chink of light suggested scary monsters, spiders, and and the greyest beasts that scuttle from the walls. But other kids needed the door halfway open and the hallway light blazing, and night lights, lava lamps and fluorescent dinosaurs. They believed the light made them safe, and nothing I could say would convince them that they were obviously very wrong.
Which brings us to today, and this picture. The sun is low in the spring sky, trying it’s damnedest to warm the earth, a solar flare dapples, yes dapples, light all around, like pixie dust. But me, I celebrate those stark dark trees, and that deep dark river. I’m telling you the dark it ain’t all bad
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