“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work.”

—Mark Twain, American humorist

Lightning is such an incredible mystery. So intense. Science still does not appear to understand what role lightning plays in our environment. It is a lesson in science. An unpredictable force of nature.

Indeed, regularly, electrons drain to earth from luminous clouds above sending shockwaves in all direction. Evidently the charge starts inside a cloud and connect with an opposite charged element from earth.

A single bolt can unleash over 1,000,000,000 volts and 100,000 amps per discharge.

These bolts are hotter than our own sun measured at 30,000 C.

And they strike 16,000,000 times per year.

Flashes of lightning are known not only to connect with the earth, but also sprites that are 10 miles wide go 50 miles up into the atmosphere.

So the power unleashed is unbelievably huge.

The ancients were naturally awed by this natural phenomenom and the God Zeus was named as the ruler of lightning. Lightning is highly prized, known for power and speed.

Lightning, a form of energy and light, has the power to create a natural disaster, but is also awesome in its raw beauty. Just the observation of a lightning show creates humility in mankind.

Another whole type of meaning is that of lightness or the state of having little weight or force.

But who doesn’t want to feel a little less mass or density? Without a massive appearance…airy.

It can mean freedom from worry and trouble…unencumbered.

Or even the lack of appropriate seriousness or levity.

We often make “light” of a serious situation.

It might be good to make our burden lighter. That is a good deal of what I really want to talk about… How do we get “lighter” or “lighten up?”

In this context, light has new meaning, as energy again.

But fire also causes material to give out both light and heat, as well as to make luminous.

This causes light and radiance.

But it also can mean to descend. Like a butterfly can light on a flower.

Light is also a way of looking at things.

An angle, aspect, or awareness. We look at things in a certain “light”.

It is also known as spiritual or intellectual comprehension or awareness, also known as enlightenment.

Light is poetic for eyesight.

It represents one’s personal opinions, choices or life philosophy.

You can be “the light of my life!” and now light has become an expression for one you may adore.

There is the expression –a “luminary” which means a prominent and distinguished person who is espcially an example for others.

Light is an expression of the eyes indicative of liveliness or animation.

And the Quakers call a light, the guiding spirit or divine presence in each man.

And there is more…more…way more….

How can one thing be so so much. So important. How can we take light so much for granted.

And God Said, “Let there be Light”

Light is so, so interesting. Light has so many meanings. There is so much to it. Light is one of the most studied and yet enigmatic subjects. It has so captured my imagination that I have named my website after it and will spend some time interpreting why light is so remarkable.

Of course, in physics, it is defined as electromagnetic radiation that has a wavelength in the range of about 3,900 to about 7,700 angstroms. In this definition, light is able to be perceived by the unaided, normal human eye.

Light also creates a sensation, such as the warmth that we all can feel from our sun. We know that we can feel this electromagnetic radiation and brightness that somehow emanates.

Our sun is so central. It represents the epitome of light. We derive all of our illumination from our sun. It provides us with daylight, nutrition, and life force. This celestial body gives out light and warmth and creates all of the colors of the rainbow by its ability to split its light into different frequencies. This guy is responsible for most of the beauty that the eye can behold.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. —Albert Einstein

Wouldn’t it be amazing if we all could do be or have anything we want to be in life?

Einstein says that time and space are really only one thing. It now looks like Quantum Physics is catching up with him with current theories.

While time and space may well be one element, we mere humans sure have not been able to conquer time. This gives us a timebomb of sorts, leaving us with only a limited amount to do our life’s work. Not only do we want to complete our life’s work and add to the value of mankind’s legacy, we want to enjoy our time here and bring joy to all with whom we come into contact.

Being efficient is important. There is no time to waste. Mastering the ability to produce results is empowering and sustaining. From a base of accomplishment, one can build and achieve waht you believe in. When you are able to master your creativity, in any field, you will be well down that journey to success.

Every great thinker, whether scientist or philosopher, has had the incredible ability to focus his or her mind on an objective and stay focused regardless of the pressures to dissuade or distractions to the issue. These people were creative in every sense of the word, like Einstein, forging a shift in thinking for all the world to adopt.

They found that with a vision and focus of mind on that vision that truly miraculous things can and do happen. Creativity comes with conscious attention on the present moment and focusing the enormous power of silence on the current idea.

Many great scientists, artists and visionaries knew that there is a mysterious and wonderful power beyond themselves and often give credit to this power for their discoveries and innovations. But what they had, was the desire and perseverence to tap into that power.

Do you?

Welcome to Lightworks.

We are all in this together. This amazing, wacky, wonderful world.

After a very long, very amusing and bumpy journey through this part of my life, I have ended up here. Creating Lightworks.

Lightworks is a new website that we will build together. Under construction now, this website will continue to form over time. Initial features will include a blog, a community, a newsletter, and a question and answer section.

There is a blog that I plan to use to set down certain philosophies and methodologies that might be useful to others. It is for me to record certain ideas and thoughts before they slip by. It is my intention to spend the rest of my life in the service of others as I can.

It is for us to work together in the community that we will build. A community that will naturally attract light.

The purpose of Lightworks is to explore the ways that we create the fabric of our lives. We will use practical examples that life throws at all of us. These examples of experience are coming from that vast electrical sea of the universe.

Our lives are so full, so busy. Perhaps it is a blessing, perhaps it is an enormous cosmic joke. Life keeps us so busy doing minutia that it becomes a distraction from our primary purpose in being on this earth. Have you ever felt that you have a purpose, a mission? What is keeping you from executing that plan? Are you doing everything you can be doing and should be doing to be the best person that you know how to be?

As babies, we are born so pure, we are totally aware, conscious, perceiving beings. That moment might be taken away as soon as that hospital technician slaps us on the bottom and we cry for the first time. Then, the business of life starts….learning the human way that we all have been taught.