“You know the name you were given,
you do not know the name that you have”
― Jose Saramago, All the Names
Today I spent designing tomorrow.
I want it to be a radiant solar day.
At least I think that’s what I want.
I’ll see.
I set the time for the moon to rise tonight
then fade in tomorrow’s early light.
I plotted the trajectory of the sun
to climb up over the maple trees.
I figured a good time for noon,
equidistant between sunup and sundown.
I scheduled morning shade west of the house,
afternoon shade east as the sun tipped away from noon.
Then there was the question of what to do with all the light,
light being the very essence of day?
Light permits showing and seeing.
What risks should I take in self-revelation?
How much self should I show strangers?
How much self should I show friends?
What would they see?
What would they tell me they saw?
Honestly.
If I could read their minds,
what % of deviation would I notice between
what they said and what they thought?
This begs the question,
how much of the being bearing my name
do I want to be seen? Do I want to see?
I will include more clouds and less sun
in my plan for tomorrow.
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José Saramago – (1922 – 2010) Portugeuse novelist – His novels include: Land of Sin,
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Baltasar and Blimunda, The Stone Raft,
Blindness, The Cave, Death with Interruptions, All the Names. In 1998 he received
the Nobel Prize for literature.
August/2021