Learning To Be The Light by Newworldson.
I’m learning to be the light
That makes the shadows hide / The light that breaks the curse of pride / The light that takes the weary in it’s arms
When it all came crashing down / There was only darkness all around / But in the distance I could see / A Flame
149 plays
In Your Light
Making Mirrors
And it can settle the sadness / And the voices in my head / When I’m in the glow of the warmth you throw / I can put all that to bed
In your light, just when I’m in your light / And I won’t get by if you take that light away
And when you’re smiling on me / That is all I need / To put behind me all my worry / And life’s complexities
“Why do fireflies die so soon?” - Setsuko, Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies)
“Oh, the fireflies! oh, the fireflies!
They rival heaven’s starlit skies;
Myriads floating in the air,
Now flashing here, now sparkling there,
They rise—they fall—they dart—they glide—
‘Tis their lantern feast at ev’ntide;
The fragrant solitudes they seek,
Peopling the silent groves and creek;
Skimming the plain and reedy cove,
In countless brilliant points they rove;
Glancing amid the gloomy trees,
Like a mute swarm of burning bees;
Meteor-like, with vivid glare,
Sweeping, blazing, everywhere;
Swift from out the depths appearing,
Down, and up, in mad careering;
Or wild with sport, or urged by ire,
On—on they rush a tide of fire;
Beautiful creatures! Israel’s host,
Could of its fiery pillar boast,
But these, to guide them through the dark,
Bear on each breast a tiny spark.
With wonder struck, we stand to view
Such a glorious revelation;
Nor sun, nor moon, has ought to do
With their living light’s creation;
Heaven-lit lamps for purpose wise,
All independent of the skies;
Bright, wondrous denizens of night,
Evolving with self-kindling light;
Luminous bodies, circling round
In geometric laws profound,
They star the sky, or dot the ground;
Or, quiv’ring on the boughs and stems,
They flash like ocean’s liquid gems,
Nor can the diamond’s bright beam,
Outshine the lustre of their gleam;
Dazzling as lightning’s fervid dart,
From out the blackness forth they start,
Wheeling, in bright fantastic game,
Their glitt’ring torches all aflame,
Ere from the nectrine buds they sip
The luscious sweets that court their lip,
Spangling the trees and shady bow’r,
With a mysterious golden show’r.
Oh! who can keep their startling pace?
Who their tortuous path can trace?
Who can view without devotion,
Such living suns in constant motion,
Knowing each tiny spark we see,
Burns with the fire of Deity?
Is fraught with life—nor life in vain—
But forms a link in nature’s chain;
And while we gaze, and ponder so,
Teaches a moral lesson too,
That, when affliction brings us night,
Our oil should burn—our lamps be bright—
And howsoever deep the gloom,
Their light should all our path illume.”
- C. B. Langston, Fireflies
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Fireflies fascinate me to no end.
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This bioluminescent beach is just breathtaking.
Bioluminsecent Phytoplankton - Dinoflagellates
The biological light, or bioluminescence, in the waves is the product of marine microbes called phytoplankton—and now scientists think they know how some of these life-forms create their brilliant blue glow.
The most common type of marine bioluminescence is generated by phytoplankton known as dinoflagellates. A recent study co-authored by Hastings has for the first time identified a special channel in the dinoflagellate cell membrane that responds to electrical signals—offering a potential mechanism for how the algae create their unique illumination.
Swim in a sea of stars!
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“Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround you
What more is you lookin’ for?”
- Sebastian, “Under the Sea,” The Little Mermaid
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An underwater glow-in-the-dark.
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See life glow…
“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.” - Homer
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