{"id":934,"date":"2017-11-17T17:51:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/?p=934"},"modified":"2019-07-31T18:21:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:21:39","slug":"happens-light-darkness-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/happens-light-darkness-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When Light and Darkness Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Denise Turney<br \/>\n<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics --><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=UA-30301813-2\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];<br \/>\n  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}<br \/>\n  gtag('js', new Date());<\/p>\n<p>  gtag('config', 'UA-30301813-2');<br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_786\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/2016\/04\/09\/special-love-doesnt-exist\/love-flower\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-786\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-786\" class=\"size-full wp-image-786\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Love-flower.jpg?resize=584%2C779\" alt=\"love flowers\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Love-flower.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Love-flower.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikimedia Commons &#8211; GNU Free Documentation License<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The best experiences in this world still seem to showcase the illusion that there&#8217;s a dance between light and darkness. Sweet dreams are challenged by family departures, political upheaval, economic crisis and relationship disappointments. By the time you do fulfill a dream or reach the top of a long term goal, you might feel fatigued.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting to the top is only part of the path<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then, there&#8217;s the work of maintaining the levels of success that you worked hard to gain. If you earn an income as an athlete and you&#8217;ve been competing for longer than 15 years, you know how hard it is to accept that, despite how hard you work out or despite how many mental exercises, including meditation, that you engage in, you&#8217;re aging body is changing in ways that will soon force you away from the sport you love so much.<\/p>\n<p>It happens to parents who invest years into their children only to stand at the edge of the front yard and watch those same children, now grown adults, drive away from the house that they grew up in for the last time. Intervals between change, times when you feel or sense that something is about to happen that you have no control over, can be tough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Letting go is part of this world&#8217;s dance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got it. Life in this world is a series of &#8220;embraces&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/tinybuddha.com\/blog\/the-greatest-act-of-love-is-letting-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">let gos<\/a>&#8220;. It&#8217;s the &#8220;let gos&#8221; that can make it feel like darkness is dancing with light. You win to let go of the life experiences that made you feel like you were on top.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like Raymond Clarke, the main character in the novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Love-Pour-Over-Denise-Turney-ebook\/dp\/B007MC0Z2C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>Love Pour Over Me<\/u><\/a>, you might seek the safest life possible as an attempt to avoid having to let go of someone or something you love. For Raymond, the dance started early, when Raymond was only two years old.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Continuing to move forward &#8211; advance; keep loving<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when Raymond&#8217;s mother abandoned him, leaving him to fend for himself while he grew up with his father, Malcolm. After Raymond&#8217;s mother abandon&#8217;s him, Malcolm sinks deep into untreated alcoholism. It&#8217;s at this point that Raymond becomes much more than a son. It&#8217;s at this point that Raymond becomes a target for his father&#8217;s disappointments, rage, fear and hurt.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a miracle that Raymond survives, but survive Raymond does. Yet, a hard childhood has left Raymond with emotional and psychological wounds. Raymond carries these wounds with him to university in Pennsylvania. As much as Raymond seeks to conceal his wounds, they seep into his relationships, especially his closest relationships.<\/p>\n<p>And the dance begins.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Get your copy of \u201cLove Pour Over Me\u201d Now at &#8211; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebookit.com\/books\/0000001582\/Love-Pour-Over-Me.html\">http:\/\/www.ebookit.com\/books\/0000001582\/Love-Pour-Over-Me.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amazon.com &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Love-Pour-Over-Me-ebook\/dp\/B007MC0Z2C\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Love-Pour-Over-Me-ebook\/dp\/B007MC0Z2C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barnes &amp; Noble &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/love-pour-over-me-denise-turney\/1109600654\">http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/love-pour-over-me-denise-turney\/1109600654<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Denise Turney The best experiences in this world still seem to showcase the illusion that there&#8217;s a dance between light and darkness. 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