THE MYSTERY OF FRIENDSHIP

LIGHT IS GENEROUS If you ever had occasion to be out early in the morning before the dawn breaks, you will have noticed that the darkest time of night is immediately before dawn. The darkness deepens and becomes more anonymous. If you had never been to the world and never known what a day was, you could'nt possibly imagine how the darkness breaks, how the mystery and the colour of a new day arrives. Light is incredibly generous, but also gentle. When you attend to the way the dawn comes, you learn how light can coax the dark.
The first fingers of light appear on the horizon, ever so deftly and gradually, they pull the mantle of darkness away from the world. Quietly, before you is a mystery of a new dawn, the new day.
Emerson said : "No-one suspects the days to be gods".
It is one of the tragedies of modern culture that we have lost touch with these primal thresholds of nature. The urbanisation of modern life has succeeded in exiling us from fecund kinship with our mother Earth.
Fashioned from the Earth we are souls in clay form. We need to remain in rhythm with our inner clay voice and longing