Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

the Comfort of a “Tamed Flame”

Thoughts during a scheduled pre-dawn “rolling power blackout”

My thoughts are about -and by means of- the 70% of my brain’s neural synapses that are involved, directly of indirectly, with vision. They are occupying my attention at 4:30 am in the pre-dawn blackness of this South Dakota winter’s morning. And there occurs to me an almost palpable ancestral connection with my forbearers almost four million generations removed as I relax in the dim, comforting glow of a candle - a “tamed flame”. It is somehow fascinatingly comforting to realize that all the neural connections from my retinas to my brain’s cortical visual center and then to the various regions allowing perceptions and emotions associated with awareness of the candle’s glow are via the same basic neural pathways by which my evolutionarily distant direct ancestors enjoyed the comfort of a “tamed flame” that followed upon their epochal taming of fire.

Just thought it worthy of mention....

Imaged with iPhone12ProMax

Dave

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Ourspolair

Beautiful capture and rendering of this candle-lit scene. Thanks for sharing this peaceful image. Please stay safe.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Philosopher and photographer, Dave, good combination!

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

thanks, Ourspolair,
Dave

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Thank you, Mike;
Anyway, it can, indeed, be interesting to note, in the cold light of day, the turns and directions the sleepy mind can take in the wee hours!
Dave

Wingpilot Loc: Wasilla. Ak

That’s appealing, in a surrealistic way. Very nice. Thanks for sharing that.

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Thanks, Greg.
Surrealistic? You are being kind!
I snapped the image and typed in my 5houghts and thought I had sent it...but awoke several hours later with it still unsent in my ipad on my lap- so I hit send. If I’d looked closer I would not have posted that image! But I’m glad, anyway, that the words reflected my thoughts.
Best regards,
Dave

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

There are so many things that can be said about “the light” and what it means to each of us. Thanks for your reflected thoughts.