Atmosphere

In the chorus of Kaskade's Atmosphere are the words, All my life I've been a star, holding a light up in the dark. When I look around I feel like I sense a great crowd of people wandering around in the dark. Either the bills are piling up, work is going badly, relationships are strained, or the losses seem insurmountable.

In The Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote:

A man all light, a seraph-man, On every corse there stood. This seraph-band, each waved his hand: It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light.

We don't have to fix things – or people. Shining a little light with a kind word, a personal gift, or a moment of a busy day will go a long way toward lifting someone's spirit. We can be a heavenly sight for a person who needs to know they're loved.

Check out Kaskade's Atmosphere, and shine your light today.

The Year the Sun Died

A page on my calendar says it's spring, but not here.

Not now.
Not since the sun died.

It's cold sitting in this man-made pit.

My two friends and I

are confined inside,

emerging every now and then to gather

frozen meat

and dead wood.

The outside is our meat locker: our storage area for animals that surrender to the absence.

Right now I guess we're solid.

How long I don't know. We've felt no wind and seen no rain for months, but … I miss the moon most of all.