Ah! Loadshedding! I wonder whether Eskom realises what a
gift we have been given through the incompetence of its incumbents? An
opportunity to shed the load of mankind’s technology and commune once more with
nature as it was intended. A respite from the incessant buzz of daily life and
a chance to listen to the voice of the wind, soughing through the boughs of the
trees, the night birds calling shrilly down at the shore, the silent stars
moving in an eternal dance across the canopy of the night, only the planets
shifting position in the firmament as they spin around the star that gives us
life.
Our senses seem to heighten in the darkness to compensate
for our dimmed vision, and we can hear the silence as peace settles across the
land. Only the rhythmic flashing of the lighthouse beam on the treetops as its
beacon lights the way for seafarers disturbs the darkness. Inside, a single
candle flame illuminates the house, mocking the light bulbs that hang useless
from their wires, dependent on man’s technology to provide day by night.
And suddenly the light returns and the spell is broken.
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