Light and shadow, midsummer

''My first memory is of light - the brightness of light - light all around.''
- Georgia O'Keeffe

''I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time...'' - Emily Dickinson

''There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.''
- Annie Dillard

''From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and
makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.'' - Ralph Waldo Emerson

''How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds
darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply
no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to
live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the
light.''
- Barry Lopez