Q & A

In a recent interview I provided some insight into what becomes of a blogger and how they come up with the topic of their writings.

We met at a local retreat were I often hang out.

BLOGSPOT: So tell me about the name of you’re blog “The Darkness of Light” how did you come up with the name?

DL: Well it is rather simple and complex at the same time, and I suppose that is the point.

BLOGSPOT: What is the point?

DL: That it is many things. Simple and complex , everything and yet nothing. You see?

BLOGSPOT: Not quite but go on.

DL: Well. Take the title literally “The Darkness of Light” as though to imply that light could be dark, or at least have qualities to it that are dark. Once you start to take that apart and look at it in different ways you should see my point. But it doesn’t stop at the first level of what it really could be. Perhaps dark isn’t the absence of light, just as light isn’t a source of energy. Approach it from a different angle and darkness represents the absence of everything, not just light; and light is the collective of all being.

BLOGSPOT: Interesting. Could you not also interpret them to be the opposite of what they are?

DL: Yes, precisely. The darkness of light or the evil in good, or rather the bad in religion. But that is only a part of it. Darkness can be sad or depression as well. They are something of extreme opposites if you follow me?

BLOGSPOT: It’s different I’ll give you that. So tell me where do you get your inspiration?

DL: Again it is from everything and from nothing. The topic I choose for a given moment may not at first appear to have any relevance to the previous posts whatsoever. But a pattern is there almost imperceptible that ties them all together. I write of the day, comment on other happenings, and link to my own findings on the web. A sort of trail of bread crumbs that I leave behind.

BLOGSPOT: Did you get lost?

DL: Have you read the first half of this interview?!? Seriously though that is the point; it is a journal of where I have been, pointing to where I am going. The trail is my mark. It is provided for me to learn from my past and to allow others to discover my present. As I said from the beginning I do this as much for myself as I do for others. There will be times when only I will completely understand what is written, and there have been times when perhaps I was the last to comprehend what was going on. It represent of that I wish for and aspire to attain and allows me to realize that perhaps I already have what I am looking for and perhaps I do not know what I want.

BLOGSPOT: Well that is all that we have time for tonight but perhaps you will take time for more questions in the future?

DL: Sure. Drop me a line any time. I’ll do my best to enLighten you.