Thought for the Week: The light and the dark

Harvey Gillman meditates in Menorca

by Harvey Gillman 12th April 2013

The harbour is still. The tramuntana – the wind from the northern mountains across the sea, cool in the winter – has fallen. I sit on a rock and look out on what is one of the deepest harbours in the world, that of Mahon, the capital of Menorca. I reflect it is good to be here in the calm, the peace, the harmony of light, and rock, and the gentle green that dominates this island, a biosphere reserve, where over two hundred species of birds and one thousand species of plants have been recorded.