I’ve been continuing to think from time to time about black and white.  In my view, I believe both are needed in our world of different tensions and realities.  When you think about it, they are gifts.  If were were always in blazing light, we couldn’t get a good night’s sleep, we couldn’t meditate.  Sometimes we curse the darkness, and other times we bless it.

Ideally, we look at both sides of the door:  light on one side, dark on the other; both rooms are exciting.  It’s up to us to make both rooms meaningful and productive.

I learn a lot from working with blind people.  They see things in a completely different way.  People who are completely blind live in a world of darkness at all times.  Like anyone else, they have all the emotions we have.  I would imagine they have built their own “light rooms” within their own realities, because they’re happy, productive, exciting people who live meaningful and artistic lives. We who have our sight, have the opportunity to see both sides of it in our way, and they are able to see it in a way we’ll never be able to comprehend, which makes it another explored space for them and us.

Matt