Looking at some of the pictures of shadows today

I remembered Plato’s Allegory of the Cave… 

I dug around in my books and found his story of people

who have been chained to the wall of a cave

all of their lives… chained and facing a blank wall.

The people watch shadows projected on the wall

by things passing in front of a fire behind them,

so they begin to designate names to these shadows.

Shadows are as close as the prisoners get to reality…

and the story goes on to explain how the philosopher 

who is freed from the cave and finally comes to know

that the shadows on the wall don’t make up reality at all.