Ta-Nehisi Coates on why he blogs:
My hope here is twofold--1.) To write deeply about that which I wake up thinking about. 2.) To push people to write deeply, either here or in their own space, that which they go to bed thinking about. I do not wish to model content. I wish to model form.
So here it goes. . . .
Stained Glass
January 29, 2011
I woke this morning to an image of stained glass in a dark church – a nave in the evening after the last prayer has been spoken and the dampened candles send their smoky trails to the high ceilings. I look at the dark glass. In the low light, at the right angle one can just make out the images as different textures of black and gray, with only a few hints of muted color that help identify the image of a man.
To understand the full design, there must be light – behind the window from outside the building.
And that is the ultimate intention of this blog space – to shed some light on our public conversation, to apply a perspective that may enlighten the situation under discussion.
[Church interior, source: tesnexus.com]
[Stained glass: Thomas Becket | Canterbury Cathedral | dark: Wikipedia | bright image: ambrett on flickr]
