When I sat down to review the contributions to this newsletter and write this introduction, I was so happy to see the photograph provided by Jenna Booth. It so perfectly captures the theme of this newsletter - dark and light - and meditating on the photograph helped to launch me into writing this piece.

Light and dark symbolizes many feelings and expectations which span over centuries in many cultures and religions as well as in philosophy. How are these phenomena experienced through your senses? What do you associate with – the light, the dark or somewhere in the middle?