clarebeeI have a theory that dappled light is a kind of nervous-system-calmer - like white noise for the body.
bmoreinis=>journa.host@clarebee Gerard Manly Hopkins agrees: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44399/pied-beauty
Pied Beauty
Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and…