Guide and Keeper

Just think about what kind of light you're going to carry.

Light is what we learn from the past

, and it’s why we live in the present. We still think about what

happened before, but we live for today and for tomorrow.

The same light is in all our children and their children,

— and in the future when we’re all dead. It’s us.

Light is in the world and in the way we think. It’s in

the water and the flowers and in you and me and everyone I know.

Everything I don’t know goes out the window. And it’s good.

— Light is everything, and it’s always the same, but we

learn different things from it. We never know light is light until we see it or feel it or remember what we learned from something else until we think about the past and use the knowledge we gained there to shape our present and our future.

Light is the past and the future.

We don’t just live for today and tomorrow; we live because we know there’s more than this little bit of time we live in. We think about what’s happening now and what will happen later because we remember what happened then. We compare it to our present, but only because the past gives us something to compare it to. All that light that shined on us before, all that light is us.

The Light

There is a light in the sky to guide us. There is a light in our hearts to save us. There is a light in the leafy trees that tell their story when they swing and sway. The knowledge of there being lights can guide people on their way, so if you ever wonder what it might be like to take the path less traveled and leave your mark for others, just think about what kind of light you’re going to carry with you always.

inspired by Eva Rtology’s “Light as the dominant medium in art”

photo by Anton Mislawsky, ISO Legacy