Light

It's what gives our planet warmth and lets all life on it grow and thrive. It guides our ways and our time.

But it relentlessly scorches the land and our very bodies, sets the world ablaze and will one day swallow it whole.

Light is electromagnetic radiaton in a specific spectrum, containing visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light. Wavelengths outside of this spectrum are for example radio waves, Röntgen radiation, or high energy gamma rays.

On selfawaresoup.com, Esther sometimes writes things like

The sun was just coming up over the tree tops and it all was mirrored perfectly on the ice, except the sky in that mirror image wasn’t bright blue but pitch dark. Remember those photos of astronauts on the moon, where the sun is shining but the sky just empty?

Light things include:

the Sun, the star of our solar system
flashes of lightning
a magnesium flame

Dark

We fear it and what lurks within. It haunts us and reminds us how helpless we can be.

But it brings dreams to our sleep and magic to those who dare wake through it.

Darkness is the absence of visible light to humans while some animals can also perceive for example infrared or ultraviolet light. Objects are dark when they absorb much of the visible light that reaches them.

On selfawaresoup.com, Esther sometimes writes things like

There was nothing left but dark emptiness, the cutting cold and the echoing plucks and rumbles of the infinite black ice screaming. I started screaming too. I screamed at the top of my lungs and my voice lost itself in the endless singing, cracking and thundering.

Dark things include:

graphite, a naturally occuring form of carbon
the feathers of a raven
the new moon