How do you take a picture of the dark?
Stepping away from a store late this evening the light suddenly changed.
Up and down Oak Bay Avenue stores and banks, street lights and Christmas decor went dark.
Synchronized and in unison, the street rolled up with customers still in motion.
How do you follow the reality of darkness?
Driving home, expectations for street light guidance were unfulfilled.
No magic lines of a power grid, with lights in houses, along streets and in businesses, showed the way ~
Darkness from Oak Bay, through Fairfield to Beacon Hill Park.
When the lights finally came back on
when electricity flowed once more
news of Nelson Mandela’s death flooded through radio waves.
Darkness for a moment in time in a Victoria winter?
Acting on the darkness of a country and culture
Imprisoned for 27 years
Family fractured and torn
Nelson Mandela humbly shared many moments in time with his nation and the world despite the reality of his political and personal darkness.
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived.
It is what difference we have made to the lives of others
that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
~ Nelson Mandela
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