By moonlight, we see in black and white. We cannot see colors. There is something fascinating and valuable about seeing the world that way. We see only what is essential. We see form emerging from a sea of blackness. . . . We can look at the world so familiar by daylight and see it anew in the black and white of moonlight. – Ming-Dao Deng, from The Lunar Tao: Meditations in Harmony with the Seasons
In, The Practice of the Wild, poet Gary Snyder says, "Life is not just a diurnal property of large interesting vertebrates. It is also nocturnal, anaerobic, microscopic, digestive, fermentative: cooking away in the warm dark."
Take several photographs and turn them into black and white.
Write into the darkness of shapes and shadows.
Search for new meaning in the areas of light.
Let emotions arise.
What do you find in the black and white of moonlight?
Find writing ideas and emotions cooking away in the warm dark.
Pay reverence to what's underneath, elusive and uncanny.
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