Mark, who has a tall ladder, helps us every now and then with little house repairs. Tonight, he came to attach solar-powered motion sensor lights on one side of the house. The ones I gotare small but give off beams in three settings—bright and on all … Read on blog or Reader Via Negativa Read on blog or Reader The Idea of Light By Luisa A. Igloria on July 3, 2024 Mark, who has a tall ladder, helps us every now and then with little house repairs. Tonight, he came to attach solar-powered motion sensor lights on one side of the house. The ones I got are small but give off beams in three settings— bright and on all night after dusk, dim but brightening, or suddenly bright at detected motion. The idea of light is that it foregrounds what's cloaked in shadow and therefore precarious—a short flight of crooked steps, the space underneath where someone of dubious intention might crouch. A stray cat prowls this part of the neighborhood and winds up on the lowest corner of the roof. A masked raccoon watches intently in the fork of a tree. Comment

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