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When we were little we used to catch fireflies at night as it got dark. We'd put them into old mayonnaise jars with grass on the bottom and holes poked in the lid and watch them light up. Then, when it got dark enough we'd play tag with the other kids with flashlights in our yard. We'd forgotten about most of that until we had to prepare a birthday gift for our brother, and spent the greater portion of our weekend wandering through photos and gasping at who we were, and how that differed from who we thought we were, and how we weren't the person we wanted to be--and feeling bittersweet about that, good and bad. We made a slide show, burnt it to DVD, sent it off to our brother--and dumped all the photos willy-nilly back into a box and then buried the box deep in our closet. Sometimes you can have too many thoughts. Sometimes you just wanna burn them all away, go through the forge, and turn into something else, something new, something beautiful.

Pic from Le Blog Exuberance's series on a new house in Potrero Hill.