Keeping it Light

A friend challenged me today about keeping my writing light. I think about this idea and wonder if his expression should influence what I write about or how I write about it.

Quite an interesting dilemma, do I only write when I have something positive or ‘light’s to say, or do I dare to drag my dark mood into the public domain?

Perhaps I choose to reflect on the voices I encountered in a conference, the latest documentary on TV, the evening news? At any point in life, or any moment we can find the dark and the light. The yin and yang… most days the news is almost all bad, the documentaries bear witness to the horrible nature of human behaviour, the need for balance is in our minds.

We keep the bright side up and hope that with time everything becomes bright. I will thus today try and write something light!

A labour of love

I rescue the little worms

That burrows in my garden

Valuing their service

Working hard

Just below the surface

I pluck the weeds

That grows in my garden

Devaluating their contribution

Just a common nuisance

Life better without their intrusion

I plant seeds of hope

That I hope will grow in my garden

Valuing their bounty

Expecting familiar pleasures

Like every other gardener I’ll expect to harvest a treasure

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, 2012-05-06.