Our Children Follow in Our Footsteps
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Light and Dark
Darkness is a costume that light dons every night,
drawing ghoulish shadows around her blinding light.
Outlandish to surrender to midnight’s inky stain,
then return as Aurora—shedding her light again.
Why do we seek our opposites? What could the purpose be?
The mountains meet the valleys. Desert gives way to sea.
Every single element and every creature, too—
Christian and agnostic, Arab, Hindu, Jew,
lives with all these contrasts jostling within.
Goodness gives way to evil. Piety battles sin.
Frolicking or feuding, our inner natures jell—
drawing us toward Heaven and/or jerking us toward Hell.
Day by day how can we know how we’ll go down in history?
This alchemy of opposites still remains Nature’s mystery.
Word Prompts today are shadows, outlandish, ghoulish, frolic, light and costume.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
These are outstanding photos and a profound poem. It’s possibly one of m favorites from you — and that’s saying a lot!
Happy Halloween. 🙂
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Wow. So glad you liked it. It didn’t come especially easy today..One of those words didn’t want to fit into the tale. Glad it worked out in the end.
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Judy — your portraits of children are absolutely magnificent — I especially love the little girl with her duck! The birds and flowers are also excellent photos — a magnificent post!
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I saw her on the malecon with her mother.. I got several good shots of her. I love taking photos of children.
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I know — the little ones really help photographers — they are truly just themselves as they go about whatever they’re doing!
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Ah those questions. The ones we all confront and for which there is never an answer or at least, none that I’ve ever found. Life has become ever more bizarre. I lost a good friend last night and others are sick too. In addition to all the other worries, my old friends now really ARE old and I worry about them.
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So sorry about your friend. We just have to enjoy each other while we can–very little control over the rest. It will be interesting to see what comes next. oxoxo (Suddenly, they are making me give details to reply to comments on my own blog! Notifications haven’t worked all day. What is going on with WP?
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Just realized I used your photo without your permission. Hope it is okay.. I forgot I didn’t take it! Ha.
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What a gallery of fun, scary, sweet and memories Judy 🙂
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Great pics Judy. Very important points to ponder in your poem.
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It is so hard to find the light in certain people right now. People with tremendous power. Scary.
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Absolutely true.
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Delightful collection of images. The poem does raise an interesting question. I do think we’re all more varying shades of gray than black and white souls.
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With some exceptions. But generally, you are absolutely right.
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Thanks, Bushboy. I was fun trying to balance dark and light. I think light won.
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Dialectics, Judy, the unity of opposites. Fantastic photos!
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Thanks, Dolly. Like gathering eggs, searching through photo files.
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As long as the chicken has done her job well…
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Definitely a treat
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