It's one of those "dark tourism" opportunities that draws young people in from the cities and I was one such candidate keen to take a look; to see what's there, but also to try and understand this insane period of Australian history.
We can find, even within our darkest troubles, opportunities to connect with one another.
The first is, of course, because the emergence of writers of talent, integrity, distinction, wit, vision, and imagination is always a cause for celebration, and, in these dark times, no opportunity to celebrate should be allowed to slip by.
The lowest point in my career came with the realization that I was excluded from consideration for a position at Duke because "I had not responded to an advertisement," according to my supposed mentor, who had conveniently kept me in the dark about this opportunity.
Hints of cross-cutting layers suggest to team member James Rice of Arizona State University in Tempe that some of the older beds may be sandstone laid down by ancient winds, much as wind has shaped the dark sand that Opportunity has already traveled.
But a lot of these men cry in the dark without the opportunity or means to get help.
The dark offered ample opportunity for some to find safety and companionship in the arms of another without the prying eyes in the sky.
King and Hill have a way of turning questions about the roots of their dark imaginations into opportunities to sound more wholesome and sane than the person posing the query.
Gibson created a highly influential theory of "affordances," which are qualities of an object or environment that communicate opportunities to do certain things (e.g., dark shade indicates an opportunity to get out of the sunshine; a thick cushion signals the availability of comfortable seating).
Do we accept the opportunity knowing dark shadows lurk in the path ahead?
