Picking up the trail….

No question, I lost the blogging drive quite a while back.  Not that I had nothing to say (ask anyone, I have plenty to say), but I lost the urge to put it in black and white.  The joy was missing, the flashes were gone. 

I’ve been feeling the urge come back recently, don’t know why.  But I like it.  The flashes of light are coming back.  A few months ago while driving to work, it was that deep blue purple of false dawn, and there was an architecturally beautiful building in silhouette against the sky that made me think…that I’d like to share the beauty.   My camera was in my purse, but too buried to get out in time (in freeway traffic!).  It happened again today, also on the way to work.  The sun was coming up over the horizon and warm morning light was reflecting off vertical rows of windows on the downtown skyscrapers with brilliant flashes of golden yellow light.  The camera was still buried, but the image is burned in my mind.  

Somehow I’ve been edging closer to putting things in writing again, even without photographs.  There have been so many other moments in the last year+ that I hope to touch on later. 

And despite the gloomy economy and global climate change, there are still items in the news that elicit a smile.

And oh yeah, I got a new laptop.  Inspiration city!  ♥  Sparkles abound….

Sparkly & Clean

This won’t always be a Flash of Light that will interest folks at large. Sometimes it will be only *my* flash of light, and such is the case today.

We have having a small gathering of people planned at our home this weekend (more on what that excitement is about at a later time), and I chose to take the day off to do some much-needed cleaning, etc. (But I can only take so much of that, so have intermittently checked work e:mail, blogs, flight arrival times, etc…, and now am adding to my own skimpy blog…LOL!). There are also certain things I just can’t do in the house, and one of them is to wash the living room windows. I’m lousy at it. They are big. I leave streaks. And if I try it, I get *really frustrated* after hours of back and forth checking them for missed spots. BUT – they look out onto a pretty nice view, so its best if they’re clean. Sadly, they have been rain spattered for far too long now, and yesterday on the spur of the moment I sweet talked a local window cleaning service into swinging by today at the end of their schedule to wash at least the big picture windows on the outside. They were actually booked for several weeks in advance, so I was really fortunate to have them agree! So – the wonderful window-washer guys have now come and gone, and even gave the insides a wash. The windows are clean! And so…becomes my Flash of Light for the Day. Yay!

Zero Gravity

News is addictive for me.  Local, national, international, universal (hoping, hoping that any day now my subscription will arrive from the “The nuArae System Daily Post” … see: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/08/26/new.planet/index.html).

 

Yes, I understand that news reporting is biased.  Some of the fun is separating the wheat from the chaff.  But there are often Flashes of Light that make me smile, and that’s what I crave.  Read on….

 

The news is, of course, often dark in nature.  I am not.  So I was completely enthralled last week with news video of Stephen Hawking’s zero-gravity flight.  He is one of my heroes.  Seeing the joy and wonder expressed in his face while experiencing weightlessness was powerful; this amazingly brilliant person trapped by ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in a severely marginalized body had the grin of a 10-year old boy.  It took my breath away.  To most others, the thrill of a zero-gravity flight is just that – a thrill ride.  Good fun, but with no intrinsic value (research aside).  But it was so much more to Dr. Hawking.  It was unexpectedly touching freedom. 

(http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/04/26/hawking.flight.ap/index.html)

(http://clipaday.com/videos/stephen-hawking-does-rolls-in-zero-g)

 

And so becomes a Flash of Light.  Ultra-brilliant, in this instance.  Watch for them everywhere….