Gratitude List #12: A Feast of Food, Friends, and FUN 2!

Today's gratitude list is on the themes of summer fun - food, friends, and fun including music and drinks (black cherry theme), in relative order of this past week (but not in order of importance!):

* Meeting up with a BAR (Blog-A-Rhythm) blog member, Sanch Vee and her sister in Vancouver, BC after work
* Having 'a drink' (Black Cherry cocktail mix) and dinner at a pub patio (Steamworks) in the cool air on a hot day
* Sharing an interesting dessert amongst us with three flavours of custard/mousse-like dessert
* A holiday mid-week - Canada Day
* A paid holiday (at least for me)
* Fireworks to music (on Canada Day)

* Free concerts outdoors, two nights in a row
* Dancing to live music outdoors
* Bumping into someone I know, a former choir member
* Having 'a drink' - I rarely do (honest!) - and feeling groovy (a little tipsy perhaps as I drank too fast with an empty stomach, not realizing till later that they did allow food in the beer garden
* Creativity - ideas for a scrapbook page
* Another sunny hot weekend to air-dry my laundry*

* A coupon for a free tea beverage
* Fresh brewed iced tea
* David's Tea, a colourful and wonderful shop for tea-drinkers/lovers
* Fresh summer fruit: cherries and apricots
* Ice cream - black cherry! - to keep me cool, albeit temporarily! ;)

*Should I stop saying this as I think it will be a summer-long theme?!

What are you grateful for at this time? Today/yesterday/this past week?

Light, Sound, Action!

When you watch fireworks, do you notice if the flashes of light come before the explosion of sound or if the sound follows? Think of a thunderstorm: you witness the lightning first, then hear the thunder (as the speed of light travels faster than that of sound).

What is it about fireworks, such as Vancouver’s recent Honda’s Celebration of Light, fireworks extravaganza that appeals so much to the general public? Is it the light? The noise? Both?

Could it attract us as human beings because we are made of up light? Some would say we are made up of light particles, from the same materials as stardust. And as like attracts like - light attracts light – in this case humans and fireworks.

We radiate electromagnetic light insomuch that there is an electromagnetic field surrounding our body as an entity. We are enveloped in this auric field indicated by an aura or glow around a person’s body that some people can see with the naked eye, in particular around a person’s head. More commonly perhaps is to see this as a glow in a person’s face. This may be one reason why, at least in some circles, human beings are referred to as “light beings.”

What is it about fireworks that attract you, and why?