By Candlelight
Boston Pops, "A Boston Pops Christmas" (the album). It's a very Christmas, very upbeat, very enjoyable CD (or cassette, LP, whatever medium you can find it on). At this particular moment the song is "The Little Toy Trumpet".
Again, i find myself in a writing mood with no specific direction to head in. I stand in a field full of creative seeds, each one waiting to be developed into a full grown idea, meandering thought, musing, or what have you. I could walk twenty-eight paces to a new spot, or i could choose one right where i stand. Or, a sniper could take me out from far off in the trees and i could pick a seed wherever i respawn.
Found one.
In our house, much like any, there are plenty of lights that come with at least two options. On, or off. Some have fancier options like how bright they are, while some have multiple parts that can be turned on or off rather than just one bulb. My mom, for isntance, has this Thomas Kinkade lamp. Under it (actually, part of the stand) is a house that you might find in one of Kinkade's paintings. You can illuminate just the house, just the lamp, or both. There are a great variety of lighting options, and they're certainly not decreasing any time soon. Why, in the room i'm sitting in right now there are four lamps. Two on a table, two their own stand. Two have the traditional on/off option, two have three levels of brightness adjustments. One of them is on a timer. See? Already, in one room, there are thirteen different settings for only four lamps.
Ben, my brother, likes to leave lights on at night. If he's in a room, the light goes on. If he leaves the room, the light stays on. It works as an obscure way to keep track of what rooms he's been in. I can't tell in what order he's visitted them, only that he was there. I'm sure it has nothing to do with a fear of the dark or an irrational fear of light switches, but rather a forgetful or otherwise distracted mind. Not to say that i have a lack of understanding for such a thing, for i have one myself. But, i'm quite the opposite in the lighting respect. When i vacate a room, i cut the power to the light source. It's not that i sit in a house completely void of anything but dark, it's that i just feel no need in leaving a room illuminated without a human presence. Why spend money on something you're not using?
One of these nights, i'm not going to use lights at all. I'll light a whole bunch of candles around the house and go about my nightly activities by the soul power of natural light. It would be a bad idea to rely on their heat during the winter, so that luxury i will leave to run as it normally does. I'll just sit down to read a book by candlelight, or cuddle in with someone (again with the cuddling), or whatever. It won't really matter. A candle's light works wonders on its own.
The only other light that is as magical for me, is the moonlight. As Tom Waits articulately put it, "the moon does funny things inside a man". One of those little things in life i so love is the mystical blue glow that snow reflects from a full moon. Simply beautiful.
Perhaps i'll develop further on that at a later time. Right now Chelsea and i are going to make sweet 'n sour chicken. Mmmm. Maybe i'll post some here for you to try.
Do something by candlelight this week.
Again, i find myself in a writing mood with no specific direction to head in. I stand in a field full of creative seeds, each one waiting to be developed into a full grown idea, meandering thought, musing, or what have you. I could walk twenty-eight paces to a new spot, or i could choose one right where i stand. Or, a sniper could take me out from far off in the trees and i could pick a seed wherever i respawn.
Found one.
In our house, much like any, there are plenty of lights that come with at least two options. On, or off. Some have fancier options like how bright they are, while some have multiple parts that can be turned on or off rather than just one bulb. My mom, for isntance, has this Thomas Kinkade lamp. Under it (actually, part of the stand) is a house that you might find in one of Kinkade's paintings. You can illuminate just the house, just the lamp, or both. There are a great variety of lighting options, and they're certainly not decreasing any time soon. Why, in the room i'm sitting in right now there are four lamps. Two on a table, two their own stand. Two have the traditional on/off option, two have three levels of brightness adjustments. One of them is on a timer. See? Already, in one room, there are thirteen different settings for only four lamps.
Ben, my brother, likes to leave lights on at night. If he's in a room, the light goes on. If he leaves the room, the light stays on. It works as an obscure way to keep track of what rooms he's been in. I can't tell in what order he's visitted them, only that he was there. I'm sure it has nothing to do with a fear of the dark or an irrational fear of light switches, but rather a forgetful or otherwise distracted mind. Not to say that i have a lack of understanding for such a thing, for i have one myself. But, i'm quite the opposite in the lighting respect. When i vacate a room, i cut the power to the light source. It's not that i sit in a house completely void of anything but dark, it's that i just feel no need in leaving a room illuminated without a human presence. Why spend money on something you're not using?
One of these nights, i'm not going to use lights at all. I'll light a whole bunch of candles around the house and go about my nightly activities by the soul power of natural light. It would be a bad idea to rely on their heat during the winter, so that luxury i will leave to run as it normally does. I'll just sit down to read a book by candlelight, or cuddle in with someone (again with the cuddling), or whatever. It won't really matter. A candle's light works wonders on its own.
The only other light that is as magical for me, is the moonlight. As Tom Waits articulately put it, "the moon does funny things inside a man". One of those little things in life i so love is the mystical blue glow that snow reflects from a full moon. Simply beautiful.
Perhaps i'll develop further on that at a later time. Right now Chelsea and i are going to make sweet 'n sour chicken. Mmmm. Maybe i'll post some here for you to try.
Do something by candlelight this week.
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