Sunday January 17, 2010
Spectral Light
Amy Irvine
Orion Magazine
Beyond black-and-white thinking in the New, Old West
In the dead of the night the human brain is most capable of distillation—of boiling things down to basic black and white. Smoke means fire. Breaking glass signals intrusion. From an evolutionary standpoint, this kind of rudimentary thought process might be a most valuable survival skill—the kind that allows a body to respond to threats even in a state of half-sleep.
My husband, Herb, is a lawyer, the kind of man who has been trained to think before he acts—to examine all angles and consider complexities.
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