bound by light

Thick darkness blankets the house, except for one night light in the upstairs bathroom. The kids say they have trouble sleeping without it, and I find it to be of practical value, especially if someone doesn't want to step barefooted on something like renegade legos or a lazy dog that sleeps in the middle of any old floor.

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Inside the bathroom, I realize that there is another light source. Glass bricks force light from outside to bend into uniform geometrical patterns. Multiple prisms and the hundreds of diffracted rainbows unlock candy jar. No... a bubblegum machine in my mind's eye.

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Like an addict, I rush to fetch my precious... my camera.

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Glancing over all my freshly downloaded pictures, I realize that I am much more drawn to taking pictures of colors and light, than people and events. Maybe because they are less subjective... universal. Maybe because it is much more challenging and complicated. But light is good, and it conjures memorable quotes.

"Whatever light you then receive should be used to the uttermost, and that immediately. Let there be no delay. Whatever you resolve begin to execute the first moment you can."

-From John Wesley's Notes on the New Testament.

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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."

-Abraham Lincoln