Yin & Yang

A river of white houses flow

To a great cream-yellow church.

Then you see the spring 

And the river taking birth

And flowing away.

I saw this amazing visual in this documentary on Platon, considered an iconic photographer.

The film wasn’t about light and exposures and even textures of shadow.

It was a perspective on seeing.

And in that slightly heightened awareness sparked by this film, I “saw” this establishing shot of a typical Grecian island white village in a  shallow valley. There were two clusters of white houses with almost no other colour except little splashes of that crystal blue you sometimes see in the Mediterranean.

One ran up against the side of the hill. The other ran down into the V of the valley, at the end of which was a wide,and in relative proportion, giant church. It felt like it had these welcoming arms ready to embrace the village coming towards it.

And this thought came up: that the energy of places of worship were fed by the people who came there. 

And turned on its head: these same places of worship create the energy for the people as they move into the world.

This is then what ☯ means.