📝 Blog Post: The Blue of Life

Thoughts on reading: Solnit, R. (2005). A field guide to getting lost. Penguin. Solnit begins this essay with the statement of blue being the “lost light.” A continuation from the first essay. I stopped many times reading to capture my thoughts. I do not intend to quote her verbatim, but to preserve my thoughts as they emerged while reading this beautiful essay. “The lost light,” another concept I never considered. For me, blue was a constant. Puerto Rico is blessed with permanence of cerulean blue skies, and turquoise blue water. I never considered the reason; not that we are an island, but that we receive almost constant light from the sun. So much that it scatters, fragmented, creating the illusion of the endless blue. My genes and eyes conditioned to see this light; it might be why I see so much shimmering blues around objects in the Netherlands. I learned to see that lost light, to find it, to make it mine. But Solnit argues this to be an impossible task; for blue is the colour…

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