I’m not a religious or spiritual person — not in any way most people mean when they say such things. I think the Universe is a physical place. Nevertheless, I do ask you to join me in understanding and pondering this:
All trees need the nearest star, the Sun, to live. And on every sunny day, they create representations of the star that made them possible and sustains them. It’s more or less as simple as that.
Dapples of sunlight are images of the Sun.
A few people notice this now and then. When the Sun is being eclipsed by the Moon, dapples get moon-shaped chunks taken out of them. And, on even rarer occasions, when there’s a big enough sunspot on the Sun’s face, you can see the sunspot in the dapples streaming through the leaves of trees.
Trees make representations of the star that made them. You can see this on any sunny day wherever there are trees. As long as there are trees, they always will make images of the sun.
I wouldn’t go quite so far, at least literally, but a person could be forgiven for thinking dapples of sunlight are like religious art projected by trees into the shadows — like cave paintings depicting their creator.
[ This is the first of a series on dapples of sunlight being images of the sun. ]