Assignment #2

This week was about Light.

"Your path is illuminated by the light
Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright."
~J.L.W. Brooks

This topic took my mind in so many directions. This may get a little deep on you guys but bare with me. haha i guess it's just the frame of mind that i am in this week. 

My first thought was without darkness you can not have light and vice versa. At least to the human eye. We can not even fathom what other animals or people's eyes really see or how light effects their minds. it's all just a guess and maybe if you are lucky, a generalization. My guess is that all living species see in different ways because our brains are all different. 

Our eyeball is trained to sense light and very quickly relay those messages to our brain in a way that makes sense to us. Thats all sight is. Nerve cells telling a story to our brain using light. 

What exactly is light? 

I'm not trying to provoke a science discussion. But really think about it. Gasses, particles, waves, radiation. 

Chemistry teaches us that energy can never be created or destroyed, only changed. Did Truman's life energy fragment and change into light? Is that what people speak of when they say "the light within"? I can't pretend to know.

“If you look deep within, you will find a brilliant light. To many, far too many, squint and turn away from the shine. Let your eyes adjust, and bathe in the radiance.”

"People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."  ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ros

As humans, we need light and dark in order to live. Literally. Without it, our food wouldn't grow.

As humans, we all have a spectrum of light and shadows within our own personalities. some have more of one then the other.

"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people."  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all."  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then my mind went to the sun and to the stars and our universe and black holes and then to the 100-200 billion universes out there. Carl Sagan especially came to mind (See video)

and i just get overwhelmed with a humbleness.

"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. " ~Howard Nemerov

"Our findings suggest that unseen dark matter - which emits no light but has mass - has had a major effect on the formation and evolution of galaxies, and that bright active galaxies are only born within dark matter clumps of a certain size in the young universe.”  Duncan Farrah

When i first became pregnant with Truman i thought about all the cells multiplying with in me and how his own little universe was forming. For one of my public announcements of my pregnancy on my facebook page, I posted a picture of a cluster of stars taken by NASA and announced, "My baby's first photograph."

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars,

And the pismire is equally perfect,..."- Walt Whitman

"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."- Kahlil Gibran

I took this at the beach. I felt Truman all around me this day. So i edited in the tiny fragments, or the large universe of stars, however you want to look at it, into this picture. I like to think that it's a picture of me and Truman.

"I woke up before you in the total darkness

Early morning

I could hear the wind in the trees

I was looking for the light to bring you out

From the shadows

Redefine you now for only me......

The past is beautiful

Like the darkness between the fireflies"

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen.  Keep in the sunlight.  ~Benjamin Franklin

Though my soul may set in darkness,
It will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.
~Sarah Williams

These are a few pictures that i took over the week of my mother's ring. Truman's birthstone is Peridot. I wear this ring every day, along with his foot print necklace.