Chiaroscuro

In painting, chiaroscuro is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark to create the illusion of three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface. In Italian, 'chiaro' means 'light' and 'scuro' means 'dark'. The painting or drawing of forms where depth and space are illustrated contrasting light and shade producing an effect of diffuse and luminosity.

I've always been mystified by this concept--
the concept of light and darkness, good and evil, black and white, heaven and hell, sunshine and shadow, sunrises and sunsets, tears and laughter, school enrolments and graduations, droughts and floods, fire and ice, deserts and rainforests, meeting and separation, birth and death, slumber and awakening. Yin-Yang. Contrasts. The list can go on and on.

Perhaps these contrasts are so essential that even the Holy Bible speaks about them in the [3rd chapter of Ecclesiastes]... A Time for Everything.

Well, perhaps I'm just consoling myself. Today is the fourth All Souls' Day since I have started thinking seriously about death. The fourth All Souls' Day when I solemnly remember that my dad already went ahead of the rest of the family.

Ah, we really do not know which day is our last day on earth.
Better for us to strive to be happy everyday. Better for us to live life in the best way we know how.

Life is too short... life is too short... life is too short...